High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Alka Yagnik (Gujarati: અલકા યાગ્નિક, Hindi: अलका याज्ञिक or अलका याज्ञनिक) (born March 20, 1966 in Kolkata, West Bengal, India) is an Indian singer who is ranked among the best Hindi playback singers of all time. She is a seven-time winner of the Filmfare Best Female Playback Award as well as a two-time recipient of the prestigious National Film Awards. She has done playback singing for over 800 Indian films and has to date sung more than 20,000 songs in various Indian languages.