Music Career
Shweta got her first big breakthrough with Yash Raj Films and Aditya Chopra’s Mohabbatein (2000) with 5 songs at the age of 12. She was chosen to sing in the film, after she auditioned for the final selection among almost 500 singers. Shweta created an unbreakable record then to be the youngest Bollywood singer to be launched as the singing voice for a lead actor.
Her popular songs are from Aditya Chopra's "Ladies vs Ricky Bahl" (2011), Neal 'n' Nikki (2005), Dharmendra's Yamla Pagla Deewana (2011), David Dhawan's Partner (2007), Anees Bazmee's Welcome (2007), Ram Gopal Varma's Naach (2004) and Sarkar Raj (2009), Karan Johar's Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna (2006), Mere Brother Ki Dulhan (2011) etc.
Shweta is currently the most popular singer in Telugu film industry Hyderabad.
Her Debut Record Album Main Zindagi Hoon released when she was only 16 years old with EMI Virgin Records, India. Becoming the youngest Indian-Pop star. She released 3 videos from this album, featuring herself. Her other albums include Aplam Chaplam - the Star Mix, a remix album of the classic Bollywood songs, featuring Bollywood Superstar, Salman Khan in the Music Video.
Shweta has also sung and featured for various TV Commercials and AD Jingles. Including Coca Cola (India) and green lam Laminates (India) She has sung in various Indian and Western languages and started performing live on stage, all around the world, since the age of 11, on the Children's Live Show, "Little Stars" in 1998 at the Wembley Arena in London.
In 2012, Shweta sang her first Tamil song for the movie Vettai for composer Yuvan Shankar Raja. and "Billa II" and "Aadhibhagavan" getting her the finest reviews for her renditions.
In 2011, Shweta collaborated with popular Punjabi singer and actor Harbhajan Mann for the song Sun Mere Chann Mahiya for the album Heer Ranjha (OST). Shweta has to her credit many popular Punjabi songs too.. including "Mahi Daa Sone Daa", "Je Main" "Pinky Moge Wali" and many more.
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