Bela Shende is an India

India

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n playback singer. She performed several songs in Bollywood

Bollywood

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 and regional films. 'Su Che' from the film What's Your Raashee?

What's Your Raashee?

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, 'Aata Wajle Ki Baara' and 'Apsara Aali' from Natarang

Natarang

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are some of her hits.

Besides Hindi, she has also sung songs in Marathi

Marathi language

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, Urdu, and Tamil

Tamil language

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.

Awards and recognition

• Best Playback Singer Female- Bela Shende - Zee Gaurav Award 2010- Wajle Ki Bara.
• Best Playback Singer Female- Bela Shende - BIG FM awards 2010 - Apsara Aali
• Best Playback Singer Female- Bela Shende - V Shantaram awards 2010 - Kashi Mi Jau Mathurechya Bajari
• Winner of the TVS Sa Re Ga Ma Mega Final
• RAPA National Award - "Best playback singer" for ZHALE MOKALE AKASH
• Raja Mantri Smruti Puraskar at the hands of Vijay Tendulkar
  Vijay Tendulkar
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• Nargis Dutt Award
• IMI ZEE Sangeet Award for the Debut Singer for 1999-2000 for the album 'KAISA YEH JADOO' at the hands of Bhupen Hazarika
  Bhupen Hazarika
  Bhupen Hazarika was an Indian lyricist, musician, singer, poet and film-maker from Assam. His songs,written and sung mainly in Assamese by the legend himself, are infused with humanity and universalism, and have been translated and sung in many languages, most notable being Bengali ,Hindi and...
  
   and Ravindra Jain
  Ravindra Jain
  Ravindra Jain is an Indian music composer and lyricist. He won the Filmfare Best Music Director Award in 1985.-Early life:...
  
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• Pune Ki Asha award
• Suheel Sneha Award at the hands of the then Chief Minister
  Chief Minister
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   of Maharashtra
  Maharashtra
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   Sushilkumar Shinde
  Sushilkumar Shinde
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  .She has recently sung a Hindi film song composed by Shankar Mahadevan in Hindi film We are Family . The title of this song is 'Sun le ye dua aasman'.She has also sung many songs in Tamil films composed by Ilayaraja and Yuvan Shankar Raja
  Yuvan Shankar Raja
  Yuvan Shankar Raja is an Indian film score and soundtrack composer, singer and occasional lyricist. He has predominantly scored music for Tamil as well as several Telugu films. His musical career began in 1996, at age 16, as he composed the film score for Aravindhan...
  
  recently and also a few songs with Shreya ghoshal in Hindi film 'Paheli'.Her songs have been greatly appreciated for her unique voice quality which resembles the voice of legendary singer Lata mangeshkar.

Bela has done one album named 'Hridauamadhale Gane' recently with famous poet-musician duo Sandeep Khare-Salil Kulkarni.

External links

• Official Website of Bela Shende