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Indian singer (born 1952)

For other uses, see Amit Kumar (disambiguation).

In this Bengali name, the surname is Ganguly.

Amit Kumar (born 3 July 1952) is an Indian playback singer, actor, music composer. Kumar launched his own music production company, named Kumar Brothers Music.

He predominantly worked in Bollywood and regional film songs since the 1970s, including 150 Hindi and Bengali compositions by R. D. Burman.

Kishore kumar family tree

After Burman's death in 1994, citing a lack of quality music composition, Kumar withdrew from playback singing and concentrated on live orchestra shows. In addition to singing in Hindi, has also performed in Bengali, Bhojpuri, Odia, Assamese, Marathi and Konkani. He is the eldest son of singer-actor Kishore Kumar.^[2][1]

Early life

Kumar is the son of singer and actor Kishore Kumar^[2] and Bengali singer and actress Ruma Guha Thakurta.^[3] Like his father, Amit started singing from an early age and he used t