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Anup Jalota

Anup Jalota is popularly known as the "Bhajan Samraat" of India and has spearheaded a mini-cultural renaissance in India by repopularizing the infinite beauty of spiritual music in the form of Bhajans.

Born in Nainital, Anup Jalota is the son of veteran Bhajan singer and teacher Purshottam Das Jalota. Anup started his training under his father who was a bhajan exponent. Besides being trained by his father, Anup also trained extensively in classical music from the Bhatkhande University of Music in Lucknow. He recorded his first song when he was only seven years old. Anup continued to perform right through his college days and eventually graduated as a Bachelor of Arts in Music.

In 1973, Anup was offered to join All India Radio in Mumbai. He accepted the offer and moved to Mumbai to become a singer with All India Radio in the same year. Anup always dreamt to be a semi-classical singer and never wanted to enter the silver screen, but when producer-director Manoj Kumar and composer Pandurang Dixit personally asked him to work with them for `Shirdi Ke Sai Baba`, it was an offer he just couldn`t refuse. The film released in 1977 and proved to be a major success. Besides lending his voice, Anup also composed some of the songs in the film, and his link with devotional songs was firmly established.

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