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Biography / Biodata

Name
Himesh Reshammiya
Date of Birth
July 23, 1973
Birth Place
Bhavnagar, Gujarat, India
Nationality
Indian
Star Sign
Taurus
Eye colour
Brown
Father
Vipin Reshammiya
Mother
Madhu
Spouse
Komal
Son
“Swayam”
Schoool Days
Hill Grange School, Mumbai
Favourite colour
Orange
Profession
Music Director, Singer, Actor
Music Debut
Bandhan (1998)
First movie
Aap Ka Suroor (June 29, 2007)
As playback Singer
Aashiq Banaya Aapne (2005)
Hot facts in Biography

# His father Vipin Reshammiya is a Gujurati music director.

# At just 16 years Himesh Reshammiya went into music direction, he produced television serials for TV.

# Himesh Reshammiya avoided speaking about his personal life in media until July 2007. During talk show “Koffee with Karan”, he revealed that he is married to Komal.

# His debut as music director was for the film Bandhan (1998), in which he worked with Anand Raj Anand.

# He has developed his own unique style of composition, based on pop and techno beats.

# He later became popular for his vocals which have the distinctive high-pitched nasal twang.

# He won a Filmfare Award in 2005 for Best Male Playback Singer in his debut as a singer(for the title song of Aashiq Banaya Aapne), becoming the first music composer to achieve this feat.

# Himesh is the first Indian to perform at the Wembley Stadium in London in October 2006.

# His acting debut in Aap Ka Suroor which released on June 29, 2007 was hit.

# Himesh Reshammiya’s trademark style includes a baseball cap, stubble reminiscent of George Michael, form-fitting jeans, and a belt with an oversized buckle.

# His style of handling the microphone with the bottom facing upwards, and the black trenchcoat that he wears in concerts are consistent elements of his style.

Himesh Reshammiya controversies

# In November 2006, Himesh and his co-artists were questioned by the Income Tax department about their income from a concert in Surat.

# On June 27, 2007, Himesh Reshammiya visited the shrine of Sufi saint Moinuddin Chishti, disguised in a burqa, reportedly to avoid crowd of fans. Some people objected to this, and some even felt that it was a publicity stunt for his forthcoming film. Later, Reshammiya issued an apology for “offending religious sentiments”.

# Himesh Reshammiya initially defended himself saying that his voice is not nasal, but “high-pitched singing”. Later, in an interview with The Times of India, he said “I accept I’m a nasal singer.”

# In November 2006, Himesh Reshammiya remarked that Mukesh, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, and R D Burman had a nasal style of singing but none of the artists “ever gave the same number of hits in a year”. He said this in response to allegations that all his songs are nasal-based. The remark invited the wrath of late R D Burman’s wife, Asha Bhosle. Later, Himesh Reshammiya apologized.

# In his Aap Ka Suroor Himesh Reshammiya added a song Tanhaiyaan from Boney Kapoor’s proposed film Milenge Milenge. Initially, Himesh had composed the song for Kapoor’s film but later decided to use it for his own movie. Tips, which held the audio rights of Milenge Milenge, accused Reshammiya of copyright violation, as audio rights for Aap Ka Suroor were acquired by T-Series. But Himesh defended that he had made Kapoor listen to the song, but it wasn’t included in Milenge Milenge.