Jonita Gandhi

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Jonita Gandhi
Jonita performs at Aurora, IIIT Gwalior
Nationality	Indian
Occupation	Playback singer
Years active	2011–present
Musical career
Genres	Classical Western pop jazz playback
Instruments	Vocals keyboard
Musical artist
Website	jonitagandhi.com

Jonita Gandhi is an Indian playback singer predominantly in Hindi, Tamil, Punjabi, Telugu, Marathi, Gujarati, Bengali, Kannada and Malayalam languages. She is well known for her YouTube presence. Her singing debut started through Chennai Express title track (in 2013).^[1]

Personal life[]

Her father, Deepak Gandhi, a musician by hobby and an electrical and electronics engineer by profession, recognized her potential and encouraged her to sing.^[2]

Jonita attended the University of Western Ontario where she completed her degrees in health science and business. During university, she worked as an intern at CIBC World Markets but continued to sing and perform throughout her education. She has had formal training in Western and Hindustani classical singing.^[3][4]

Career[]

Jonita at IIFA 2017 Green Carpet

Jonita Gandhi grew up around music as both her father and brother were part time musicians. They would often perform cover songs together at live community events. At age 16, she auditioned for Canadian Idol but didn't get past the audition rounds. She began making YouTube covers from her bedroom, sometimes featuring other local musicians including Akash Gandhi.^[5] The videos quickly went viral and led to a myriad of opportunities to perform. Her hits on YouTube began with covers of well-known Hindi-film songs, such as, Pani Da Rang, Tujhko Jo Paaya, Tum Hi Ho, Suhaani Raat, Yeh Honsla and many others. Her beginning concerts typically consisted of these covers.^[3]

Her jump to playback singing began with an opportunity to perform alongside Sonu Nigam. This tour crossed various countries including Russia, UK, US and the Caribbean. Afterwards, her sights were set on starting a career in the Bollywood music industry. On the heels of Sonu Nigam's world tour, Jonita stepped into the world of playback singing with a debut in Chennai Express starring Shah Rukh Khan and Deepika Padukone. The music for this film was composed by Vishal–Shekhar and her feature in the song was happen-stance; it was during a meeting with Vishal-Shekhar's mix engineer Abhishek Ghatak. She further solidified her place in Bollywood with the movie Highway, singing both Kahaan Hoon Main and Implosive Silence.^[6]

Jonita worked as a playback singer with music directors including A. R. Rahman and Pritam. Rahman featured Jonita in the concert film One Heart (film). Jonita performed at the 2016 Jubilee Games in Dubai with Salim–Sulaiman and with Amit Trivedi on MTV Unplugged.^[7]

In 2020, Jonita was involved in mentoring and judging the Indian kids singing reality show Taare Zameen Par on StarPlus^[8]

Discography[]

List of songs recorded by Jonita Gandhi. The list includes tracks recorded for film and non-film albums".

References[]

External links[]

• Jonita Gandhi's Website