Sonu Nigam Live in Doha
Media Release
Doha, Feb 10: Highly acclaimed Indian Bollywood Playback Singer Sonu Nigam whose songs have been featured in numerous Hindi, Kannada, Marathi and Telugu movies will perform live for Qatar Audience on 19 February at Khalifa Tennis Stadium.
The concert is organized by the World’s Leading Travel Agency – Regency Travel and Tours in partnership with its Title Sponsor LG/Jumbo Electronics.
Qatar Airways is the official airline partner, Regency Fleets and Al Muftah Rent A Car as the official car rental company, Grand Regency and Movenpick Tower and Suites are the official hotel and supported by Regency Group Holding, Commercial bank and Centrepoint as platinum sponsors for the concert. Empire advertising acts as the media partner for this event.
Regency Travel and Tours known for their capabilities in organizing meetings, events, conferences and exhibitions in Qatar. As part of its community welfare programs, Regency Group Holding takes this opportunity to add one more feather in its cap by organizing live concerts in Qatar to entertain all communities.
Regency Travel and Tours and LG along with the other sponsors are all set to entertain Asian Crowd in Qatar with the Sonu Nigam Live Concert. This is going to be one of the most memorable and exciting event at the start of the New Year.
Regency Travel & Tours have planned sequences of live concerts for the year 2010.
Background
Indian cinema (Bollywood) has many song and dance sequences integrated within the storyline of the films. Now although the actors are required to dance, most of them do not actually sing, instead they lip sync the words. Therefore, playback singers like Sonu Niigaam lend their voices in song for this purpose. Singer and Songwriter playback singer Sonu Nigaam has sung somewhere close to 600 songs for approximately 200 films. The amazing thing with a select playback singers like Sonu, is that they have learned to impersonate the actors’ voices so closely that it seems like the actors are the ones doing the actual singing. Sonu is hailed as perfectly impersonating Shah Rukh Khan’s voice.
Among Sonu Nigam’s famous songs are Suraj Hua Maddham (The Sun Dims into Twilight) from the movie Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Ghum (Sometimes Laughter, Sometimes Sorrow); Do Pal (Two Moments) from the movie Veer Zaara ; . Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna from Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna (Never Say Goodbye) sung by Sonu and Alka Yagnik ; . Saathiya from the movie Saathiya (Beloved); Kal Ho Na Ho from the movie Kal Ho Na Ho. Sonu is one of the award winning playback singers and some of his latest awards are as follows :
2009, Filmfare Awards South, Best Singer (Male) for the song Enaagali Mundhe Saagu Nee, from the Kannada movie Mussanjemaatu ; 2008, Annual Central European Bollywood Awards, Best Male Singer for In Lamhon ke Daaman Mein, from the film Jodha Akbar ; 2008 15th Lion Gold Awards; 2008, Best Male Singer for the song In Lamhon ke Daaman Mein from the film Jodha Akbar; 2008, Indian Television Academy Award, Best Male Singer for Amber Dhara.
2008, Filmfare Awards South, Best Singer (Male) for the song Ninnindale Ninnindale, from the Kannada movie Milana; 2008, GPBA (German Public Bollywood Award), Best Singer (Male) for Mein Agar Kahoon, Om Shanti Om
The tickets will be available at the following stores starting Monday 1st February 2010.
All Regency Travel and Tours Outlets; all LG/Jumbo Electronic Outlets ; Virgin Megastore – Villagio Mall; Royal Tandoor; Tandoor Express; Bombay Chowpatty; Aryaas Restaurant; Khana Khazana Restaurant; and Garden Restaurant