Meenal Jain

Meenal Jain was a top 6 finalist in the reality show Indian Idol 2 on Indian Television. She was voted out on February 28, 2006.

When she was 11 years old, her elder sister, a trained Indian classical dancer, was practicing to a song 'Piya Tohse Naine Laga Re'. The song caught the attention of young Meenal so much that she wouldn't stop singing it and was even invited on stage by composer Ravindra Jain who had come to as a chief guest at her sister's show. A few words of appreciation from Ravindra Jain inspired her.

With the intention to become a singer, at the age of 11, Meenal urged her parents to allow her to get admitted to Suresh Wadkar's training institute in Mumbai where music was taught in the guru-shishiya tradition. But after three months of rigorous training here, Meenal couldn't take it any longer. She...