Zubeen Garg’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Zubeen Garg is an Indian singer, music director, composer, songwriter and actor. His contributions are mostly attributed in Assamese, Bengali and Bollywood. He has sung many songs in other languages including Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, Bodo, Karbi, Nepali, Bishnupriya Manipuri, Goalparia and English. He also plays dhols, dotora, guitar, mandolin, keyboard and various percussion instruments.
Zubeen’s debut album Anamika was released in 1992.

Early and personal life

Garg is from the Upper Assam city Jorhat. His birth name is Jubin Borthakur. He was named after the composer Zubin Mehta and uses his gotra name, Garg, as his surname.

Garg’s father Mohini Borthakur is also a poet and lyricist writing under the name Kapil Thakur. His mother Ily Borthakur was a dancer, actress and singer. His younger sister Jonkey Borthakur was an actress and singer who died in a car accident in 2002 near Tezpur while they were going to perform stage show along with her co-artists. There after Garg made an album known as Shishu in memory of his late sister Jonkey. His other sister Palme is a Bharata Natyam dancer. Zubeen married Garima Saikia, a fashion designer on 4 February 2002.

Early years

Garg entered into the professional music when his debut Assamese album Anamika was released in 1992. He later released albums including Maya, Asha and Pakhi. In the late 90’s Garg moved to Mumbai to work in the Bollywood music industry where he recorded few Hindi albums and films like Chandni Raat, Yuhi Kabhi, Fiza and Kaante, and the song “Ya Ali” from the movie Gangster.

As an actor

Garg also has acted in few Assamese films. He played the lead role in Mon Jai, which won the best Assamese Film in the 56th National Award.

As a music director

Discography

Selected Filmography

Awards and honours

Zubeen Garg has received the following recognitions for his successful work in the industry: