Bad Salsa
{{Short description|Indian salsa dancing duo}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2020}}
{{Use Indian English|date=February 2022}}
{{Infobox musical artist
| name = Bad Salsa
| image = File:Bad Salsa.jpg
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| origin = India
| genre = salsa
| years_active = 2012–present
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| current_members = Sonali Majumdar
Maroju Samanth
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Bad Salsa are an Indian salsa dancing duo that gained fame after winning the fourth season of India's Got Talent.{{cite web |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/buzztop/buzztop-local/story/indias-got-talent-salsa-dancers-maraju-sumanth-sonali-majumdar-india-today-122448-2012-11-25 |title=India's Got Talent Season 4 found its winners in two little salsa dancers |last=Sivastava|first=Priyanka|date= November 25, 2012|website=India Today |publisher=Living Media India Limited |access-date=July 15, 2020 }}
Members
Both members of Bad Salsa have trained at The Bivash Academy of Dance in Kolkata where the two met and started competing in national dance competitions in India under the name Bad Salsa.{{cite web |url=https://www.thehindu.com/life-and-style/sumanth-maroju-and-sonali-majumdar-of-bad-salsa-impressed-judges-and-audience-on-americas-got-talent/article31747997.ece |title=Sumanth Maroju and Sonali Majumdar are anything but bad at Salsa|last=M. Borah|first=Prabalika|date= June 4, 2020|website=The Hindu |publisher=The Hindu Group |access-date=July 15, 2020 }}
=Sonali Majumdar=
Sonali Majumdar is an Indian salsa dancer who started her career at the age of seven by participating in the fourth season of India's Got Talent alongside her partner Sumanth Maroju.{{cite web |url=https://www.filmibeat.com/television/news/2012/indias-got-talent-winners-sumanth-sonali-101407.html |title=Exclusive: Sumanth, Sonali win India's Got Talent Season 4|last=Nambiar|first=Smitha|date= November 23, 2012|website=Filmibeat |publisher=Oneindia|access-date=July 15, 2020 }}
Majumdar hails from a farmer's family originally from Bagdah, a village in the Indian province of West Bengal near the border with Bangladesh.{{cite web |url= http://matpal.com/2013/07/sonali-majumdar-biography.html|title=Sonali Majumdar Biography|date= 2013|website=Matpal |access-date=July 15, 2020 }}
=Sumanth Maroju=
Sumanth Maroju is an Indian salsa dancer who started his career at the age of thirteen by taking part in the fourth season of India's Got Talent alongside his partner Sonali Majumdar.{{cite web |url= https://www.femina.in/trending/achievers/we-want-to-put-our-indian-style-of-dance-on-the-world-map-bad-salsa-160312.html|title=We want to put our Indian style of dance on the map|last=Kamdar|first=Shraddha|date= June 10, 2020|website=Femina |publisher=The Times Group |access-date=July 15, 2020 }}
Maroju is originally from Bhubaneswar in the Indian state of Odisha. His father is a railway employee and his mother is a housewife.{{cite web |url=https://www.thehansindia.com/life-style/indian-dancing-duo-on-americas-got-talent-630710 |title= Indian dancing duo on America's Got Talent|last=Kalyanaam|first=Rajeshwari|date= June 29, 2020|website=The Hans India |publisher=Hyderabad Media House |access-date=July 15, 2020 }}
Career
Bad Salsa rose to prominence after competing in season 4 of India's Got Talent on Colors TV and winning the competition.{{cite web |url=http://colors.in.com/in/indias-got-talent/news-indias-got-talent-crowns-bivash-academy-of-dance-as-winners-377.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130501160730/http://colors.in.com/in/indias-got-talent/news-indias-got-talent-crowns-bivash-academy-of-dance-as-winners-377.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=May 1, 2013|title=India's Got Talent crowns Bivash Academy of Dance as winners|date= December 6, 2012|website=Colors TV|publisher=Press Trust of India |access-date=July 15, 2020 }} After this, the duo participated in many national and international dance competitions.
The duo then participated in the sixth season of Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa on Colors TV and finished in third place.{{cite web |url=https://www.dnaindia.com/entertainment/report-jhalak-dikhhla-jaa-sonali-and-sumanth-s-top-5-performances-1886458|title=Jhalak Dikhla Jaa: Sonali and Sumanth's top 5 performances |date= September 19, 2013|website=DNA India|publisher=Essel Group |access-date=July 15, 2020 }} Bad Salsa also competed in the Indian dance reality television series Dance Champions on Star Plus in 2017, finishing at tenth place.{{cite web |url=https://talentrecap.com/10-facts-about-bad-salsa-the-energetic-indian-dance-act-on-agt/|title=10 Facts about Bad Salsa: The Energetic Indian Dance Act on AGT |last=Agate|first=Samantha|date= June 11, 2020|website=Talent Recap|publisher=Fremantle Media |access-date=July 15, 2020 }}
Internationally, the duo has also participated in ITV's Britain's Got Talent: The Champions{{cite web|url=https://metro.co.uk/2019/06/02/susan-boyle-finally-confirmed-britains-got-talent-champions-emotional-finale-return-9776401/ |title=Susan Boyle finally confirmed for Britain's Got Talent: The Champions | Metro News |date=2 June 2019 |publisher=Metro |access-date=2019-06-03}}{{cite web|url=https://heatworld.com/entertainment/tv-movies/simon-cowell-bgt-champions-announcement/ |title=Simon Cowell announces BRAND NEW Britain's Got Talent: The Champions😲 |publisher=Heat |date=2019-02-15 |access-date=2019-06-03}} and the fifteenth season of NBC's America's Got Talent where they emerged as a finalist.{{cite web |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/trending/viral-videos-trending/bad-salsa-duo-wows-all-at-latest-edition-of-americas-got-talent-6431567/|title=Watch: Dancing Duo 'Bad Salsa' from India wow all at America's Got Talent audition |date= May 31, 2020|website=The Indian Express|publisher=Indian Express Group |access-date=July 15, 2020 }}
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