Roop Kumar Rathod

Roopkumar Rathod is an Indian playback singer, pop singer, and music composer. a proponent of the oldest major vocal style associated with Hindustani classical music, Dhrupad. He belonged to the "Aditya Gharana of Jamnagar." He has two brothers, the late music composer Shravan Rathod, who was a part of the Nadeem-Shravan duo, and singer Vinod Rathod. Roopkumar is married to Sunali Rathod, formerly the first wife of bhajan singer, Anup Jalota. Together, they have a daughter named Reewa Rathod.

Roopkumar was introduced to music during his early years. He began playing the tabla and he became sought after by many ghazal singers in the 1980s. He first began playback singing in 1992 with the film Angaar.

Career Rathod has appeared as a vocalist on albums from 1999. He has sung songs in Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, Oriya, Assamese, Nepali and Bhojpuri films.

The song "Sandese Aate Hai", from the movie Border, became one of the major breakthroughs of Rathod's career. He received his only Filmfare Award nomination to date at the 43rd Filmfare Awards. In addition, he sang the song "Tujh Mein Rab Dikhta Hai" for the movie Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi He and Gurtu released the fusion album Beat of Love in December 2001 and the jazz album Broken Rhythms, in October 2004.

In August 2005, the comedy serial Sarabhai vs. Sarabhai featured Roopkumar and Sunali Rathod in one of their episodes that showcased a friendly musical contest.

Roopkumar, along with wife Sonali, won the title of 'Ustaad Jodi' on 'Mission Ustaad',

Awards Lokmat Sur Jyotsna National Music Award 2021 for his contribution to Indian music

He was awarded the "Icon" award at the Lokmat Sur Jyotsna National Music Awards.

Filmography

As playback singer