“Coming from a middle class background, I faced a lot of hardships during my initial years in Mumbai. I did not have much money and had to sing jingles and bhajans to survive. But those years taught me that a singer should be versatile.”

Indian playback singer

Javed Ali is an Indian playback singer known for his work in Hindi cinema. He has also recorded songs in several other Indian languages, including Bengali, Kannada, Malayalam, Gujarati, Marathi, Odia, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu. His career spans a multilingual repertoire, but Hindi remains his main field. He is known for singing across a wide range of Indian film industries, which has made him a familiar voice beyond one language or region.