Sonu hosted Radio programme in Radiocity(91.9 FM)’s Life Ki Dhun in 2006. Other than singing for films, he has released successful albums like Jaan, Chanda Ki Doli, Mausam, Kismat and few others including some devotional ones. And thus arose a distinctive voice that would go on to dominate the playback singing in Bollywood for a long time to come.
This image was furthered by the Nadeem Shravan composed ‘Yeh Dil Deewana’ from the movie Pardes. The album comprising of romantic sings was a huge hit and heightened the all new Sonu.
But he arrived only with the soulful track from Border (1997) ‘Sandese Aate Hai…’ and his 1999 album ‘Deewana’ was another milestone. He recorded ‘Accha Sila Diya’ for the album, Bewafa Sanam in 1995. Over the time the show became popular and his prospects looked brighter. Sonu became the first host of the show airing in 1995 in Zee TV. At this point, the music reality show Sa Re Ga Ma happened. He continued lending his voice to radio commercials. But Sonu had still to break out of his image of ‘Rafi clone’. Gulshan Kumar of T-Series released his album on Md. He had to struggle in his initial years singing over Rafi songs. He trained under Ustad Gulam Mustafa Khan meanwhile. When 19, he shifted base to Mumbai to pursue his singing career in Bollywood seriously. He took part in different music contests successfully in his growing up years.
He began with mostly singing Mohammed Rafi‘s songs accompanying his father in stage performances.
He began singing with his father when only three years of age. Sonu is a leading playback singer and has sung innumerable songs in many languages other than Hindi, like English, Kannada, Assamese, Oriya, Bhojpuri, Malayalam, Bengali, Telugu, Urdu, Punjabi, Tamil and Nepali. Sadhana Lila will be performing in the World Forum Theater on Saturday the 24th of August during the Sonu Nigam live in concert event in the Hague.