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Shivranjani Singh Shivranjani Singh
Background information
Born	Delhi, India
Genres	Playback singing
Occupation(s)	Playback Singer
Years active	2013–present

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Shivranjani Singh is an Indian playback singer. Her career began at the young age of 14 when she won a singing based reality show on Disney Channel i.e. Hannah Montana – The Big Popstar Dream Contest in 2008. Her first step into Bollywood was with the song “Solah Baras ki” in 2013 for the movie “16”. She then went on to sing for various other Bollywood movies like Welcome to Karachi, Baankey ki Crazy Baraat, Dee Saturday Night, Angry young man and Hate Story 3. However, she came into prominence with the release of her song “ Oh Boy” from the movie Kya Kool Hai Hum 3.

1. LIFE AND CAREER –

1.1- 1994-2008: Shivranjani was born and brought up in Delhi and later shifted base to Mumbai. Her parents belong to Himachal Pradesh with Mandi being their hometown. Her father Shakti Singh had a musical background having had a few albums and Bollywood releases himself amongst also being a cricketer and government official. She had always excelled at singing, dancing and acting during her schooling. She started considering singing as a career once she participated in a singing based reality show called Hannah Montana- The Big Popstar Dream Contest on Disney Channel. She emerged as the winner amongst 2 lac participants from across the India. A trip to Los Angeles to meet the whole cast of Hannah Montana and see the shooting of an episode and a signed Gibson guitar by Miley Cyrus were just few of her prizes. Coincidentally, she met her icon Miley Cyrus on her birthday i.e. 27^th of August. She also got featured on the cover of Disney Adventures magazine and had a music video shot which aired on Disney Channel.

1.2- 2009-2012: Shivranjani had decided to first finish her studies and then begin her music struggle. She was preparing for higher studies abroad when she was offered the song in 16 by music director Gaurav Dargaonkar. At the same time she was also dubbing for many other music directors and found herself in a dilemma. She chose to continue her studies in Mumbai itself and jump at any opportunity she received.

1.3- 2013-2014: Shivranjani started pursuing a graduation in Biochemistry along with her singing dream. In the meanwhile she was offered certain acting assignments for television and small-budget movies but she maintained she only wanted to pursue singing as her career. She recorded songs with music directors like Ankit Tiwari and Amjad- Nadeem.

1.4- 2015-2016: Her first big break was offered to her by music director Rochak Kohli for the movie Welcome to Karachi. She had 2 songs in the movie namely “Lalla Lalla Lori” with Vishal Dadhlani and “Boat ma” with Mika Singh. The very year she also had another release from the movie Baankey Ki Crazy Baraat. She sang the song “ Baby Modern Modern” along with Sonu Nigam for music director Vijaya Shanker. 2015 ended on a good note for her by having her first solo song in the musical hit Hate Story 3. She sang the track “Love To Hate You” for the young dynamic music-director Amaal Mallik. Meanwhile, she was noticed by the legendary music duo Sajid-Wajid. She started performing with Sajid-Wajid and even toured America with them in their super hit “Unstoppable” concerts. Apart from this, her track “Feed My Soul” in collaboration with Florida based music producers , Cody Morris and Sudeep Sinha, was released on trap nation’s channel and received a great response in the underground Trap music scene in the USA.

1.5- 2016-Present: Shivranjani’s year started with a bang with the release of her item song on 1^st January called “Oh boy” with Wajid Khan from the movie Kya Kool Hai Hum 3, composed by Sajid-Wajid. This song had much buzz around it as it marked the first song of actress Mandana Karimi , from Big Boss 9 fame, in Bollywood. The song benefitted from the controversial nature of the movie which was dubbed as India’s first porn com. Shivranjani Singh came into prominence with this song. She also sang the title track of the same movie with Benny Dayal, yet again composed by Sajid-Wajid. She is currently working with many music directors and performing in various events and live shows across the country.

2. AWARDS AND RECOGNITION

Shivranjani was the winner of Hannah Montana- The Big Popstar Dream Contest On Disney Channel in 2008. She flew to America to meet Miley Cyrus and the rest of the cast and crew. She also had a music video shot and a cover feature on Disney Adventures Magazine.

She also won the Performer of the Year Award from the popular teen magazine called Teen of the Year, the following year.

Times of India’s music review for the song Lalla Lalla Lori described Shivranjani as having sung the song with “panache”. Bollywood Hungama in their music review for the same described her as having sung the song with aplomb.

Bollywood Hungama’s music review for Baby Modern Modern described her as very “energetic”.

Times of India in their review for the song Love to Hate you from Hate Story 3 described Shivranjani’s voice as “haunting” while Biz Asia described her voice as “extremely powerful”. Bombay Time’s official youtube song review stated that “Shivranjani Singh ki rocking awaz ne is gane mein jaan bhardi hai” ( translation : Shivranjani Singh’s rocking voice breathed life into the song).

While “Oh Boy” was her first solo track that was commercially successful, it received mixed reviews. Times of India described her song “Oh Boy” from Kya kool hai hum 3 as one with a feminist touch. In the review of the song they stated that Shivranjani showed “a good time” and picked the song as their favourite from the album. Bollywood Hungama’s music review praised her quoting “Shivranjani Singh does quite well as a singer with 'Oh Boy' and is an absolute livewire behind the mike. Her voice has the right mix of naughtiness and sensuality as she renders the Hinglish lyrics.”

Musiacal Style & Influences: edit

Shivranjani grew up listening to artists of the west like Beyonce, Shakira, Celine Dion, Whitney Houston, etc. She is thus primarily a western vocalist. Her independent music comprises of pop ballads and melodic-EDM. She infact started out making covers of songs like Titanium by Sia, Underneath your clothes by Shakira, and so on. She writes and composes her own English tracks. Bollywood music was always a part of her influences as her father was a singer too. However, she never received any formal training in Hindustani classical music. She is now learning contemporary Hindustani classical. Her greatest role model from the Indian music scene is Lata Mangeshkar. Her favourite vocalist from the west is Christina Aguilera. Her favourite music directors, as she calls them her favourite five, from Bollywood are A.R. Rehman, Sajid-Wajid, Amit Trivedi, Pritam and Vishal-Shekhar. It is her dream to record with all 5 of them and she has ticked one off from that bucket list already.

Name Change: edit

Shivranjani in her earlier songs went by the stage name “ Shivi “ in songs such as Lalla Lalla Lori and Boat ma. She then started using her full real name Shivranjani Singh in her official son credits, which is also a raag in Hindustani classical Music. She still uses the stage name Shivi for her international music releases.

Discography

Main article: List of songs recorded by Shivranjani Singh

Song	Movie	Composer	Co-Singers	Year
Solah baras ki	16th Movie	Gaurav Dargaonkar	Shalmali Kholgade	2013
Jhatak ke Nacho	Dee Saturday Night	Ankit Tiwari	Ankit Tiwari, Akriti Kakkar	2015
Lalla Lalla Lori	Welcome to Karachi	Rochak Kohli	Vishal Dadhlani	2015
Boat Ma	Welcome to Karachi	Rochak Kohli	Mika Singh, Deane Seqiera, Rochak Kohli	2015
Baby Modern Modern	Baankey Ki Crazy Baraat	Vijay Shanker	Sonu Nigam	2015
Love to Hate You	Hate Story 3	Amaal Mallik		2015
Oh Boy	kya kool hain hum 3	Sajid-wajid	Wajid Khan	2016