Shreya Ghoshal (born 12 March 1984) is an Indian playback singer who has recorded songs for film music in Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Hindi, Malayalam, Nepali, Assamese, Bhojpuri, Gujarati, Marathi, Oriya, and Punjabi. She has received four National Film Awards, five Filmfare Awards (four for best playback singer), five Screen Awards, and eight Filmfare Awards South. She has established herself as a leading female playback singer in Indian cinema.
Ghoshal aspired to become a playback singer from a young age. At the age of sixteen, she was noticed by film-maker Sanjay Leela Bhansali when she participated and won the television singing reality show Sa Re Ga Ma Pa. Following that, she made her Bollywood playback singing debut with Bhansali's romantic drama Devdas (2002) for which she received a National Award and a Filmfare Award.
Apart from playback singing, Ghoshal has also been appearing on several television reality show's, serving as a judge. She has also been honored from the U.S. state of Ohio, where governor Ted Strickland declared 26 June as "Shreya Ghoshal Day". She has also featured three times in Forbes’ list of the top 100 celebrities of India. On February 2015, Ghoshal married her childhood friend Shiladitya Mukhopadhyaya.
