Kavita Seth
{{short description|Indian singer}}
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{{Infobox musical artist
| name = Kavita Seth
| image = Kavita Seth in a concert.JPG
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1970|09|14}}
| birth_place = Bareilly, Bareilly district, Uttar Pradesh, India
| death_date =
| instrument = Vocals
| genre = Sufi, playback singing
| occupation = Playback singer, singer of ghazals, Sufi music
| website = {{URL|http://www.kavitaseth.com}}
}}
Kavita Seth (born 14 September 1970) is an Indian singer, who is most known as a playback singer in Hindi cinema, as well as a performer of Ghazals and Sufi music, and leads a Sufi musical group, Karwaan Group.{{cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/life-and-style/money-and-careers/article351812.ece|title=Sufi and soul|date=1 April 2010 |work=The Hindu|access-date=19 April 2010|location=Chennai, India|first=Harshikaa|last=Udasi}}[https://uvmp3.com/ecbdaf/kavita-seth-performs-at-sufi-concert.html Kavita Seth performs at Sufi concert] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190821063744/https://uvmp3.com/ecbdaf/kavita-seth-performs-at-sufi-concert.html |date=21 August 2019 }} Screen, 30 January 2009. She is currently based in Mumbai, India.
She has won the Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer twice: in 2010 for her classical Sufi rendition of "Iktara" of the film Wake Up Sid (2009){{cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/features/cinema/article123631.ece|title=Amitabh Bachchan, Vidya Balan claim top honours |date=28 February 2010 |work=The Hindu|location=Chennai, India}} and in 2023 for "Rangisari" of the film Jugjugg Jeeyo (2022). She also won the Star Screen Award for Best Female Playback for the former, which was one of the biggest chartbusters in 2009.{{cite news|url=http://www.indianexpress.com/news/Music-and-Lyrics/595934/|title=Music and Lyrics|date=26 March 2010|publisher=Indian Express|access-date=19 April 2010}}{{cite news|url=http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/song-sung-true/520919/ |title=Song Sung True |date=24 September 2009 |publisher=Indian Express |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121005064634/http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/song-sung-true/520919/ |archive-date=5 October 2012 }}
Early life
She was born in Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh in a middle class family of a bank officer.
Career
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Kavita specialises in Sufi-style singing although she also sings geet, ghazal and folk songs. Over the years she has performed at live shows at London, Birmingham, Scotland, Berlin, Oslo and Stockholm and places across India. It was at one of her performance at Muzaffar Ali's International Sufi Festival concert, in Delhi that director Satish Kaushik heard her and offered a song "Zindagi ko Maula", in his film, the Amisha Patel starrer, Vaada (2005), marking her debut as a playback singer.{{cite web|url=http://www.screenindia.com/old/fullstory.php?content_id=12222|title=VISHESH Break|date=24 March 2006|publisher=Screen}}{{dead link|date=November 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} Subsequently, she moved to Mumbai, as this was followed by, "Mujhe Mat Roko" in Anurag Basu's Gangster (2006), for which she received praise.[http://www.bollywoodhungama.com/features/2007/01/03/2034/ When new female singers announced their arrival in 2006: 8. Kavita Seth]{{dead link|date=July 2023|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} Bollywood Hungama, 3 January 2007.
Besides singing she also composes music. She has composed three songs in N. Chandra's film "Yeh Mera India" (2009).[https://web.archive.org/web/20091009205101/http://www.screenindia.com/news/hard-work-always-pays/512341/ ‘Hard work always pays!’] Screen, 4 September 2009. She has also released private albums, including, Woh Ek Lamha, Dil-e-Nadan both Sufi ghazal albums, followed by Sufi music albums, Sufiana (2008) and Hazrat. Her 2008 album Sufiana, composed of couplets of Sufi poet-mystic, Rumi was released at the 800-year-old Khaman Pir Ka Dargah in Lucknow.{{cite news|url=http://www.dnaindia.com/entertainment/report_recreating-rumi-s-poetry_1306751|title=Recreating Rumi's poetry|date=3 November 2009|publisher=DNA}}[http://www.screenindia.com/old/fullstory.php?content_id=18493 Mission Sufi]{{dead link|date=November 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} Screen, 4 January 2008.
In 2020, Kavita composed the soundtrack of the BBC TV series A Suitable Boy, while also giving vocals to the songs of Tabu's character in the show.{{Cite web|last=Service|first=Tribune News|title=Kavita Seth is still on cloud nine after composing music for Mira Nair's web series A Suitable Boy|url=https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/lifestyle/kavita-seth-is-still-on-cloud-nine-after-composing-music-for-mira-nairs-web-series-a-suitable-boy-160392|access-date=2021-11-29|website=Tribuneindia News Service|language=en}}
In 2023, Kavita contributed to the album of the movie Gulmohar - starring Sharmila Tagore.
Filmography
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| Film
! Year ! Notes |
|---|
| Yeh Mera India
| 2009 | |
| My Friend Pinto
| 2011 | Along with Shamir Tandon |
| Cigarette ki Tarah
| 2012 | |
| A Suitable Boy
|2020 |Web Series |
| Jugjugg Jeeyo
|2022 |rowspan=2|Along with Kanishk Seth |
| Kesari Chapter 2
|2025 |
Personal life
She has two sons, Kavish Seth and Kanishk Seth, both of whom perform with her.{{cite news|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/filmi-parties/bollywood/Juhi-at-a-musical-do/articleshow/5719023.cms|title=Juhi at a musical do! |date=25 March 2010|work=The Times of India}} Her husband K.K.Seth died of pancreatitis on 15 December 2011, aged 48.{{cite news|url=http://movies.ndtv.com/movie_story.aspx?ID=ENTEN20110190329&keyword=music&subcatg=MUSICINDIA&nid=158688|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120710175645/http://movies.ndtv.com/movie_story.aspx?ID=ENTEN20110190329&keyword=music&subcatg=MUSICINDIA&nid=158688|archive-date=10 July 2012|df=dmy-all|title=Singer Kavita Seth's husband dies }}
Albums
- Sufiana (2007)
- Kabirana Sufiana (2010)
- Bulleh Shah (2010)
- Khuda Wohi Hai (2011)
- Ek Din (2012)
- Trance With Khusrow (2014)
- Lagan Laagi Re (2021)
References
{{Reflist}}
- [http://www.planetbollywood.com/displayArticle.php?id=s090709042926 Kavita Seth Interview]
External links
- {{IMDb name|2255404}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20100407072747/http://www.desimusic.com/songs/singer/2432/kavita-seth.html Sufi Singer Kavita Seth Discography]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20120302222657/http://www.mumbaipluses.com/westsideplus/index.aspx?page=article§id=10&contentid=2008041220080410162552193d7a300ee§xslt=&comments=true Sufi and the voice]
- [http://www.kavitaseth.com/ Sufi Singer Kavita Seth Website]
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Category:Bollywood playback singers
Category:Indian women playback singers
Category:Performers of Sufi music
Category:Delhi University alumni
Category:Indian women classical singers
Category:Singers from Uttar Pradesh
Category:Women musicians from Uttar Pradesh
Category:21st-century Indian singers
Category:21st-century Indian women singers
Category:Filmfare Awards winners