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{{short description|Indian singer}}
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{{Infobox musical artist
| name = Kavita Seth
| image = Kavita Seth in a concert.JPG
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1970|09|14}}
| birth_place = [[Bareilly]], [[Uttar Pradesh]], [[India]]
| death_date = 
| instrument = Vocals
| genre = [[Sufi]], [[playback singing]]
| occupation = Playback singer, singer of [[ghazal]]s, [[Sufi music]]
| website = {{URL|http://www.kavitaseth.com}}
}}
'''Kavita Seth''' (born 14 September 1970) is an Indian singer, who is most known as a playback singer in [[Hindi cinema]], as well as a performer of [[Ghazal]]s and [[Sufi music]], and leads a Sufi musical group, ''Karwaan Group''.<ref name=st>{{cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/life-and-style/money-and-careers/article351812.ece|title=Sufi and soul|date=1 April 2010 |work=[[The Hindu]]|access-date=19 April 2010|location=Chennai, India|first=Harshikaa|last=Udasi}}</ref><ref name=sc>[https://uvmp3.com/ecbdaf/kavita-seth-performs-at-sufi-concert.html Kavita Seth performs at Sufi concert] [[Screen (magazine)|Screen]], 30 January 2009.</ref>

She won the [[Filmfare Award]] for [[Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer|Best Female Playback Singer]] in 2010 for her classical Sufi rendition "''Gunja Sa Koi Iktara''" for the film ''[[Wake Up Sid]]'' (2009).<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/features/cinema/article123631.ece|title=Amitabh Bachchan, Vidya Balan claim top honours |date=28 February 2010 |work=The Hindu|location=Chennai, India}}</ref> She also won the [[Star Screen Award for Best Female Playback]] for the same song, which was one of the biggest chartbusters in 2009.<ref name=it>{{cite news|url=http://www.indianexpress.com/news/Music-and-Lyrics/595934/|title=Music and Lyrics|date=26 March 2010|publisher=Indian Express|access-date=19 April 2010}}</ref><ref name=id>{{cite news|url=http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/song-sung-true/520919/ |title=Song Sung True |date=24 September 2009 |publisher=[[Indian Express]] |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121005064634/http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/song-sung-true/520919/ |archive-date=5 October 2012 }}</ref>

==Early life==

She was born in [[Bareilly]], Uttar Pradesh.<ref name=it/>

After her marriage she moved to Delhi, where she started performing for [[All India Radio]] (AIR) and [[Doordarshan]].{{Citation needed|date= August 2018}} Meanwhile, she also did her post graduation in Music, ''Sangeet Alankar'' from [[Gandharva Mahavidyalaya]], Delhi and received [[Master of Arts|MA]] degree in Hindi literature from the [[University of Delhi]].{{Citation needed|date= August 2018}}

==Career==
[[File: Kavita Seth.jpg|thumb|upright|Seth at the [[Jagjit Singh]]'s anniversary]]
She first started performing at the Khan-kahe Niyazia [[Dargah]], in [[Bareilly]], and in public shows and musical concerts.{{Citation needed|date= August 2018}}

Kavita specialises in [[Sufi]]-style singing although she also sings geet, ghazal and folk songs. Over the years she has performed at live shows at London, Birmingham, Scotland, Berlin, Oslo and Stockholm and places across India. It was at one of her performance at [[Muzaffar Ali]]'s International Sufi Festival concert, in Delhi that director Satish Kaushik heard her and offered a song "''Zindagi ko Maula''", in his film, the Amisha Patel starrer, ''[[Vaada (film)|Vaada]]'' (2005), marking her debut as a playback singer.<ref name=st/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.screenindia.com/old/fullstory.php?content_id=12222|title=VISHESH Break|date=24 March 2006|publisher=Screen}}{{dead link|date=December 2015}}</ref> Subsequently, she moved to [[Mumbai]], as this was followed by, ''"Mujhe Mat Roko"'' in [[Anurag Basu]]'s ''[[Gangster (2006 film)|Gangster]]'' (2006), for which she received praise.<ref>[http://www.bollywoodhungama.com/features/2007/01/03/2034/ When new female singers announced their arrival in 2006: 8. Kavita Seth]{{dead link|date=December 2015}} [[Bollywood Hungama]], 3 January 2007.</ref>

Besides singing she also composes music. She has composed three songs in [[N. Chandra]]'s film ''"[[Yeh Mera India]]"'' (2009).<ref>[http://www.screenindia.com/news/hard-work-always-pays/512341/ ‘Hard work always pays!’] Screen, 4 September 2009. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091009205101/http://www.screenindia.com/news/hard-work-always-pays/512341/ |date=9 October 2009 }}</ref> She has also released private albums, including, ''Woh Ek Lamha'', ''Dil-e-Nadan'' both Sufi ghazal albums, followed by Sufi music albums, ''Sufiana'' (2008) and ''Hazrat''. Her 2008 album ''Sufiana'', composed of couplets of Sufi poet-mystic, [[Rumi]] was released at the 800-year-old Khaman Pir Ka Dargah in [[Lucknow]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.dnaindia.com/entertainment/report_recreating-rumi-s-poetry_1306751|title=Recreating Rumi's poetry|date=3 November 2009|publisher=[[DNA (newspaper)|DNA]]}}</ref><ref>[http://www.screenindia.com/old/fullstory.php?content_id=18493 Mission Sufi]{{dead link|date=December 2015}} [[Screen (magazine)|Screen]], 4 January 2008.</ref>

==Awards and nominations==

{{awards table}}
|-
| rowspan=6| 2010
| rowspan=6| ''[[Wake Up Sid]]''
| '''[[Filmfare Awards]]'''
Best Female Playback Singer – "Iktara"
| {{won}}{{Citation needed|date= August 2018}}
|-
| '''[[Star Screen Award]]'''
Best Female Playback Singer – "Iktara"
Best New Talent in Music
| {{won}}{{Citation needed|date= August 2018}}
|-
| '''[[International Indian Film Academy Awards]]'''
Best Female Playback Singer – "Iktara"
| {{won}}{{Citation needed|date= August 2018}}
|-
| '''[[Stardust Award]]'''
New Musical Sensation (Female) – "Iktara"
| {{won}}{{Citation needed|date= August 2018}}
|-
| '''[[Global Indian Music Award]]'''
Best Playback Singer (Female) – "Iktara"
Popular Singer of the Year
Song of the Year – "Iktara"
| {{won}}{{Citation needed|date= August 2018}}
|-
| '''GR8 FLO Women Award'''
Women Achiever Award
| {{won}}{{Citation needed|date= August 2018}}
|-
| rowspan=2 | 2012
| rowspan=2 | [[Cocktail (2012 film)|Cocktail]]
| '''Big Entertainment Awards 2012'''
"Tumhi Ho Bandhu"
| {{won}}{{Citation needed|date= August 2018}}
|-
| '''[[5th Mirchi Music Awards]]'''
[[Mirchi Music Award for Female Vocalist of The Year|Female Vocalist of The Year]] – "Tum Hi Ho Bandhu"
| {{nom}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.radiomirchi.com/mma2012/hindi/nomination.html|title=Nominations - Mirchi Music Award Hindi 2012|website=www.radiomirchi.com|access-date=2018-04-27}}</ref>
|}

==Filmography==

===Playback singer===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Film
! Year
! Song name
|-
| ''[[Vaada (film)|Vaada]]''
| 2005
| Maula
|-
| ''[[Gangster (2006 film)|Gangster]]''
| 2006
| Mujhe Mat Roko
|-
| ''[[Wake Up Sid]]''
| rowspan=2| 2009
| Iktara
|-
| ''[[Yeh Mera India]]''<ref name=yeh>[http://www.bollywoodhungama.com/celebrities/filmography/13540/index.html Kavita Seth Filmography] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090615082748/http://www.bollywoodhungama.com/celebrities/filmography/13540/index.html |date=15 June 2009 }} [[Bollywood Hungama]]</ref>
| 'Aap roothe rahe'<br>'Dil Mandir'<br>'More Naina'
|-
| ''Admission Open''<ref>[http://www.musicaloud.com/2010/05/01/admissions-open-music-review/ Music Review of Admissions Open]</ref>
| rowspan=3| 2010
|
|-
| ''[[Raajneeti]]''
| Mora Piya (Trance Mix)
|-
| ''[[I Am (2010 Indian film)|I Am]]''
| Baangur
|-
| ''[[Trishna (2011 film)|Trishna]]''
| 2011
| 'Raunakein'<br>'Lagan lagi'<br>'Khari Khari'
|-
| ''[[Cocktail (2012 film)|Cocktail]]''
| rowspan=2| 2012
| Tumhi ho bandhu
|-
| ''[[Bombay Talkies (film)|Bombay Talkies]]''
| Murabba (Duet)
|-
| ''[[Neerja]]''
| rowspan=3| 2016
| Jeete Hain Chal
|-
| ''[[Santheyalli Nintha Kabira]]''
| Navu premada huccharu
|-
| ''[[Waiting (2015 film)]]''
| Zara Zara
|-
| ''[[Begum Jaan]]''
|2017
| Prem Mai Tohre
|}

===Music director===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Film
! Year
|-
| ''[[Yeh Mera India]]''
| 2009
|-
| ''[[My Friend Pinto]]''
| 2011
|-
| ''[[Cigarette ki Tarah]]''
| 2012
|}

==Personal life==
She has two sons, [[Kavish Seth]] and [[Kanishk Seth (musician)]], both of whom perform with her.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/filmi-parties/bollywood/Juhi-at-a-musical-do/articleshow/5719023.cms|title=Juhi at a musical do! |date=25 March 2010|work=The Times of India}}</ref> Her husband K.K.Seth died of pancreatitis on 15 December 2011, aged 48.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://movies.ndtv.com/movie_story.aspx?ID=ENTEN20110190329&keyword=music&subcatg=MUSICINDIA&nid=158688|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.is/20120710175645/http://movies.ndtv.com/movie_story.aspx?ID=ENTEN20110190329&keyword=music&subcatg=MUSICINDIA&nid=158688|archive-date=10 July 2012|df=dmy-all}}</ref>

==Albums==
* ''Trance With Khusrow'' (2014)
* ''Ek Din'' (2012)
* ''Khuda Wohi Hai'' (2011)
* ''Bulleh Shah'' (2010)
* ''Kabirana Sufiana'' (2010)
* ''Sufiana'' (2007)
* ''Lagan Laagi Re''(2021)

==References==
{{Reflist}}
* [http://www.planetbollywood.com/displayArticle.php?id=s090709042926 Kavita Seth Interview]

==External links==
* {{IMDb name|2255404}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20100407072747/http://www.desimusic.com/songs/singer/2432/kavita-seth.html Sufi Singer Kavita Seth Discography]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120302222657/http://www.mumbaipluses.com/westsideplus/index.aspx?page=article&sectid=10&contentid=2008041220080410162552193d7a300ee&sectxslt=&comments=true Sufi and the voice]
* [http://www.kavitaseth.com/ Sufi Singer Kavita Seth Website]
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[[Category:Indian female classical singers]]
[[Category:Singers from Uttar Pradesh]]
[[Category:Women musicians from Uttar Pradesh]]
[[Category:21st-century Indian singers]]
[[Category:21st-century Indian women singers]]
[[Category:1970 births]]

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