Sudesh Bhosle

Born on 1st July 1960 in a conservative Maharastrian family,Sudesh Bhosle today is the most versatile artist in the Indian film Industry. His father Late Shri N.R.Bhosle was an artist associated with one of the reputed film banner artist and his mother Late Smt.Suman Bhosle was an Indian Classical Vocalist. Sudesh had never planned to be a professional singer in his wildest dreams. During his childhood he was more inclined to painting,infact he had even sketched and painted for the film Julie. Singing was just his hobby. Sudesh Bhosle was following the footsteps of his parent's professions, Sudesh use to help his father with painting posters and also he use to participate in singing in his college. Having consciously developed his natural gift of mimicry in his college and started getting the recogniation as singer and mimic with the popular orchestra ‘International Artist Melody Makers’. Sudesh was initially groomed in the basics and technicalities under Pt. Satyanaryan Misra and veteran composer Kalyanji.

Suddesh Bhosle had started his career as crooner and compere with ‘International Artist Melody Makers’ in the year 1982. Since he had a passion for perfection, he would rehearse till the late hours in his bed to perfect his items and improve upon them. Mimicking a star or singing an entire song one after another in different singer's voice. His first breakcame in 1985, where in a concert his renditions, moved a member of the audience, Asha Bhonsle. Amazed at the youngster's art, she approched him to give an audio tape of his performence to her. She played it to her husband, the late R.D.Burman, who immediatly liked it and offered Sudesh to sing a song for the film ‘Zalzala’. After this there was a ripple effect,one after another,music directors like Laxmikanth-Pyarelal, Kalyanji-Anandji, Bappi Lahari approached him to record a song. Sudesh Bhosle recorded a song with Kishore Kumar, who was his idol for the film ‘Waqt Ki Awaz’, which incidentally was the last recorded song of Kishore Kumar. But success has continuously kocked at his door-steps in the form of the film ‘HUM’, the ‘jumma chumma de de',s’ number created a sensation in the Hindi Film Industry.

Sudesh Bhosle king of mimicry got his first major break in playback singing in the film Zalzala (1988). He used mimicry to become a professional dubbing artist for several artists like Sanjeev Kumar and Anil Kapoor. He actually dubbed for Sanjeev Kumar when he died prematurely before completing the film Professor ki Padosan. He has sung songs for the movie Ghatothkach in 2008.Bhonsle is the producer and judge on K For Kishore, a singing contest on Sony Entertainment Television. He has sung many famous Bollywood songs for Amitabh Bachchan including ‘Jumma chumma de de’ from 1991 movie Hum. He can mimic numerous Bollywood stars including Ashok(Dadamuni), Amitabh Bachchan, Vinod Khanna, Sanjeev Kumar and many more. He possess a great talent of Voice Modulation.

He has been awarded the Mother Teresa Millennium Award for his contribution to music in a ceremony in Kolkata in 2008.