asees kaur is the melodious voice behind chartbusters like akh lad jaave panghat and several other bollywood numbers the young singer recently won a filmfare award for her song hui malang from malang in an exclusive interview with etimes she opens up about her dreams of becoming a playback singer formally recording a song for the first time and her journey in the music industry so far excerptsyou recently won a filmfare award for hui malangread alsoasees kaur music emerges from the heart it should be soulfulsinger anees kaur talks about what music means to her and morehow does it feeli really feel blessed to have been honoured with a filmfare award for hui malang as a child i always dreamt of going on stage and receiving a trophy i used to watch filmfare awards on television so when it actually happened for real my entire journey flashed before my eyes it feels amazing and surreal at the same timehow and when did you know that you wanted to make a career in musici started singing when i was a kid my father used to make me sing gurbani in gurudwaras slowly it grew on me and i started loving it i started listening to bollywood music and then western music it happened organically one by one but it was amazingtell us about the time when you first entered the industry as a singerit just happened overnight i always wanted to come to mumbai to make a career in singing but my parents were not comfortable sending me alone as we did not know anyone here they had told me that if i got an opportunity they will allow me to go then one day i got a call from a music director he wanted to try my voice for a song i came to mumbai and from there my journey as a singer began eventually that song did not release in my voice but it gave me a lot of courage to stay back in mumbai and try my luck with other songsnow when i look back i feel amused because i had no idea about anything here i had no contacts and did not know anybody i gathered contact details of music composers set up appointments to meet with them made them listen to my songs and eventually i started getting calls for scratches and they became the final versions of the songs so it was quite a journey but i am happy with thatin a short span of time you have lent your voice to some popular numbers like malang makhna akh lad jaave and others were these conscious choicesinitially i sang romantic songs like bolna tere bin and so people used to approach me for similar songs then akh lad jave happened and it totally changed peoples point of view towards me and my singing after that i started being approached for makhna malang panghat and all such dance numbers however it just happened out of