Benny Dayal
Benny Dayal came out of a Chennai band, S5, and A.R. Rahman gave him his first Hindi song, Pappu Can't Dance Saala (Jaane Tu… Ya Jaane Na, 2008). Kaise Mujhe (Ghajini), Omana Penne, Badtameez Dil (Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani), Bang Bang and Locha-e-Ulfat made him the voice for the big dance opener of the 2010s.
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Life
He was born in Kollam in 1984 and grew up in Abu Dhabi and Chennai, singing in college bands; Rahman heard him in S5 and used him in Tamil before Jaane Tu. He sang for Pritam (Badtameez Dil, Locha-e-Ulfat), Vishal-Shekhar (Bang Bang, Tu Meri), Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy and Amit Trivedi in Hindi, and widely in Tamil, Malayalam and Telugu; he has toured with Rahman and performs with his own band Funktuation.
The voice
A bright, agile, pop-and-funk-trained tenor with crisp rhythm and a stage performer's energy.
Composers
- A.R. Rahman
- Pritam
- Vishal-Shekhar
- Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy
- Amit Trivedi
Sang for
- Ranbir Kapoor
- Hrithik Roshan
- Imran Khan
- Ranveer Singh
- Varun Dhawan
Sang with
More film songs 31 songs, by year
2010s
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- Kavita Krishnamurthy
- Kumar Sanu
- Udit Narayan
- Abhijeet Bhattacharya
- Hariharan
- Sadhana Sargam
- Alka Yagnik
- Jaspinder Narula
- Shaan
- Sonu Nigam
- KK
- Arijit Singh
- Atif Aslam
- Mohit Chauhan
- Rahat Fateh Ali Khan
- Javed Ali
- Kailash Kher
- Neha Kakkar
- Sunidhi Chauhan
- Armaan Malik
- Shreya Ghoshal
- Jubin Nautiyal
- Papon
- Shilpa Rao
- Neeti Mohan
- Monali Thakur
- Shalmali Kholgade
- Mika Singh
- Sukhwinder Singh