Name |
Usha Uthup |
Height |
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Naionality |
Indian |
Date of Birth |
November 8, 1947 |
Place of Birth |
Mumbai, India |
Famous for |
Singing |
Usha Uthup is a popular Indian pop, jazz and playback singer. She is well known for popular hits in the late 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.
She started her Bollywood playback career, when she sang an English verse in hit song, "Dum maro dum"" in Hare Rama Hare Krishna, and went on work with music directors like R.D. Burman and Bappi Lahiri, through the 1970s and 80s, singing hits like "Ek do cha cha cha" (Shalimar), "Koi yahan aha nache nache" (Disco Dancer), "Ramba ho" (Armaan), "Hari Om Hari" (Pyaara Dushman) and "Doston se pyar kiya" (Shaan) and more recently "Darrling" in 7 Khoon Maaf.
She has sung in 16 Indian languages including Bengali, Hindi, Punjabi, Assamese, Oriya, Gujarati, Marathi, Konkani, Malayalam, Kannada, Tamil, Tulu and Telugu. She can also sing in several foreign languages including English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Sinhalese, Swahili, Russian, Nepalese, Arabic, Creole, Zulu, and Spanish.