Armaan Malik

Armaan Malik
Background information
Birth name	Armaan Malik
Born	(1995-07-22) 22 July 1995 (age 26) Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Genres	Filmi Music • EDM • R&B Acoustic music • Indian Classical Music • Pop music • Indian pop • Ballad • Indie pop
Occupation(s)	Playback singer • Songwriter • Record producer • Guitarist • Voice-over
Instruments	Vocals & Guitar
Years active	2007–present
Labels	Zee Music Company • Sony Music India • Arista Records • Aditya Music • Saregama • T-Series • Spinnin' Records • Tips music
Associated acts	Amaal Mallik
Website	https://shop.armaanmalik.com/

Armaan Malik (born 22 July 1995) is an Indian singer, songwriter, record producer, voice-over, performer and actor.^[1] He is known for his singing in multiple languages, including Hindi, English, Bengali, Telugu, Kannada, Marathi, Tamil, Gujarati, Punjabi, Urdu, Malayalam. He is also known as "Prince of Romance".^[2] In 2006, he took part in Sa Re Ga Ma Pa L'il Champs but got eliminated in the 8th position. He is the brother of music composer Amaal Mallik. Previously represented by Universal Music India, he is now signed on by T-Series.^[3] He has also signed with Arista Records.^[4] His first on-screen appearance was in the film Kaccha Limboo in the year 2011.^[5]

He is the youngest singer to win two debut awards at Global Indian Music Awards (GiMA) and best playback singer award at BIG Star Entertainment Award in 2015.

Early life[]

Armaan Malik was born in Mumbai on 22 July 1995.^[6] His father, Daboo Malik is a music composer in Indian music industry while his mother, Jyothi Malik belongs to a Telugu-speaking family from Visakhapatnam.

Career[]

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He started singing at the age of 4. He went to Sa Re Ga Ma Pa L'il Champs in 2006 without the title Malik. However he didn't win the show. Later Armaan learnt Hindi Classical Music for 10 years and went to learn western music from Berklee College of Music, Boston.

Armaan Malik has dubbed for My Name Is Khan for the English boy and also lent voice for the character Salim in the radio version of Slumdog Millionaire for BBC Radio 1. In 2014, Armaan sang "Tumko Toh Aana Hi Tha", "Love You Till The End (House Mix)" and the "Title Track" for Salman Khan's movie Jai Ho.^[7] Apart from singing, Malik and his music composer brother Amaal Mallik also featured in the beginning of Jai Ho in the song "Love You Till The End". In that year, he sang "Naina" with Sona Mohapatra for the film Khoobsurat and "Auliya" for Ungli.

In 2015, he sang "Main Hoon Hero Tera" for Hero, "Kwahishein" for Calendar Girls and "Tumhe Aapna Banane Ka" for Hate Story 3 under elder brother Amaal Mallik's composition. The latter one he sang with Neeti Mohan. He also sang another song for Hate Story 3 titled "Wajah Tum Ho" under Baman's composition. He also sang a single "Main Rahoon Ya Na Rahoon" under Amaal's composition. He was awarded Filmfare R. D. Burman Award for New Music Talent in that year.

In 2016, he sang for the films Mastizaade, Sanam Re, Kapoor & Sons, Azhar, Do Lafzon Ki Kahani and "Sab Tera" with Shraddha Kapoor for Baaghi under Amaal's composition. He sang "Foolishq" with Shreya Ghoshal for Ki & Ka, he worked with Jeet Gannguli for the song "Mujhko Barsaat Bana Lo" for Junooniyat and also sang his first Bengali song "Dhitang Dhitang" for Love Express under Jeet's composition. He was the lead singer of the film M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story. He sang four songs for Hindi soundtrack and three songs for Tamil soundtrack of that film under Amaal's composition. He sang "Sau Asmaan" with Neeti Mohan for Baar Baar Dekho and "Ishaara" for Force 2 under Amaal's composition. He sang "Tum Jo Mille" for Saansein, "Pal Pal Dil Ke Paas Reprise" and "Dil Mein Chupa Lunga Remake" for Wajah Tum Ho. The latter one was composed by Meet Bros and the last two songs, he sang with Tulsi Kumar. He sang a single "Pyaar Manga Hain Remake" with Neeti Mohan. He also lent his voice for the title track of Star Paarivar Awards 2016 with Palak Muchhal and Meet Bros under Meet Bros composition.^[8]

In 2017, he sang two singles "Aa Jana Ferrari Mein" and "Paas Aao Na" under Amaal's composition. He also sang a single "Kehta Yeh Pal Pal Remake". He worked with Gourav-Roshin for "Haare Ram Remake" and Mannan Shah for "Tere Dil Mein". Both the songs were made for the film Commando 2. He sang for Noor, Chef and Golmaal Again under Amaal's composition. He sang two songs for Sweetiee Weds NRI, 'Shiddhat' and 'O Saathi'. He worked with Arko Pravo Mukherjee first time for the latter one. He sang two Bengali songs in 2017. One is the title track of Ami Je Ke Tomar and "Ele Chupi Chupi" for Amar Aponjon. He also sang for Mubarakan, Tera Intezaar and Tumhari Sulu.

In 2018, he sang a single "Ghar Se Nikalte Hi" under Amaal's composition. He worked with Tanishk Bagchi first time for the title track of Dil Juunglee. He also sang "Baadnamiyaan" for Hate Story 4 under Baman's composition (originally composed by Luvdeep Saini). He also sang for films including Nirdosh, October, and 102 Not Out. He sang for the films Baazaar and Sanju where were later dropped from both of the albums. He lent his voice for the Hindi soundtrack of 2.0. The soundtrack of the film was composed by A. R. Rahman and the film was released in 2018.

In 2019, he lent his voice for two songs including "Jab Se mera Dil" with Palak Muchhal for the movie Amavas, "Dil Me Ho Tum" for the movie Why Cheat India, "Kyun Rabba" for the movie Badla. The singer also got feature as a coach on an Indian reality show The voice and became the youngest coach/judge in the history of Indian singing reality shows. He sang "Chale Aana" in De De Pyaar De composed by Amaal and lyrics by Kunaal Verma. The song was well received by the audience in general. The singer has also lent his voice for Mena Massoud as Aladdin, in the Hindi version of the American musical fantasy Aladdin. In addition he also sung the songs in the Hindi for the film The Lion King. He also sang for the film "Kabir Singh", under the composer Vishal Mishra for the song "Pehla Pyaar". In same year, he sang two songs for Yeh Saali Aashiqui, one for films like Article 15, Pranaam, Pati Patni Aur Woh and hindi soundtrack of Pailwaan.

In 2020, he sang one song for hindi soundtrack of Darbar, Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl and Khuda Haafiz.

In 2021, He lent his voice for one track of Saina, Koi Jaane Na, 99 Songs, Bell Bottom, Thalaivii and Bhoot Police.

In 2022, his next song is coming from the Hindi soundtrack of Radhe Shyam.

Television[]

• 2006: Sa Re Ga Ma Pa L'il Champs, as a contestant.
• 2012: The Suite Life of Karan & Kabir (Season-1 Episode-22), as Zafar Ali
• 2015: Indian Idol Junior 2 as a guest.
• 2016: The Kapil Sharma Show (season 1, episode-15), as guest
• 2016: Sa Re Ga Ma Pa, as a guest.
• 2019: No. 1 Yaari Jam (episode-2), as a guest.
• 2019: The Voice, as a judge.
• 2019: By invite only (episode 42) as guest.
• 2019: The Kapil Sharma Show (season 2, episode-56), as guest
• 2017: The Drama Company (episode 23rd), as a guest.
• 2020: Jammin season 3 as a guest.
• 2020: The Love Laugh Live Show S2 as a guest.
• 2021: UnacademyUnwind with MTV as a guest.

Discography[]

Awards and nominations[]

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