Sonali Jalota

Sonali Jalota is an Indian playback singer. She is also a trained classical singer. Sunali Rathod was born on 17 January in, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. She studied in St. Xavier's College, Mumbai. She was first married to singer Anup Jalota, but divorced him and remarried to Roop Kumar Rathod, an Indian playback singer, music director and a music composer. They have a daughter named Reewa. She started to perform at the age of 10 under the guidance of Gujarati music composer Shri Purshottam Upadhyay. During this stage she was introduced to Pandit Hridaynath Mangeshkar, who became her mentor. She also learnt the intricacies of Indian classical music Classical music under Ustaad Faiyyaz, Niyaz Ahmed Khan, Ustad Mashkoor and Mubarak Ali Khan of Kirana School of Music. She sings in languages like Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi, Bengali, English, Telugu etc.