{"id":9040,"date":"2012-02-13T11:32:28","date_gmt":"2012-02-13T11:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2012\/02\/13\/bollywood-award-for-southall-singer\/"},"modified":"2012-02-13T11:32:28","modified_gmt":"2012-02-13T11:32:28","slug":"bollywood-award-for-southall-singer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2012\/02\/13\/bollywood-award-for-southall-singer\/","title":{"rendered":"Bollywood Award for Southall singer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>Ash King scoops Stardust Award for Best New Male Singing Sensation<\/h3>\n<div><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"3\" align=\"middle\" width=\"460\" height=\"257\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/Image\/ArticleImages\/AshKingStardust_460x225.jpg\"\/><\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div><strong\/><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div><strong\/><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div><strong>A SINGER from Southall has scooped a major Bollywood award. <\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Singer, songwriter Ash King was in Mumbai to collect his Best New Male Singing Sensation award at the prestigious Stardust Awards.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The singer is becoming a regular on the Bollywood music scene having sung for a number of Bollywood blockbusters. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The evening saw him rubbing shoulders with some of the world&#8217;s biggest Indian film stars including the legendary Rekha, Akshay Kumar, Deepika Padukone, Vidya Balan, Kajol, Kareena Kapoor, and Bipasha Basu.\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Ash beat off tough competition from the likes of Ali Zafar, Kamal Khan and Shahid Mallya, all of whom featured in the same category.\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Accepting the Award he said: &#8220;Thank you, what a year. Bollywood has shown me so much love. I\u2019m touched. Here&#8217;s to more songs, more magic. Thank you to the fans! It has been a great year for my songs, especially &#8216;Te Amo&#8217; and &#8216;I Love You&#8217;, big thanks to Pritam for that. A R Rahman introduced me to the industry and I am ever grateful. It is an honour to be part of this industry.&#8221;<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Ash rounded off with an acapella of &#8216;I Love You&#8217; and woo&#8217;d the all-star crowd, before Kareena Kapoor dazzled the stage with her medley of dance numbers from her latest movie &#8216;Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu&#8217; &#8211; including Ash King&#8217;s current Bollywood hit &#8216;Aunty Ji&#8217;.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nThe London boy from Southall is rocking Bollywood and is dubbed the one to watch this year. Upon walking the red carpet and leaving the ceremony, King was met with a fan frenzy. Ever the entertainer he sang &#8216;Te Amo&#8217; for his fans, in what became a media rush to catch the live impromptu medley of Ash King songs, with award in hand.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nAsh continues his stay in India this month to record more material, having already sung on no less than six major Bollywood soundtracks, including work with Oscar-winning AR Rahman and much loved Bollywood maestro Pritam. His hits have included &#8216;Dil Gira Dafatan&#8217; (&#8216;Dehli 6&#8217;), &#8216;Te Amo&#8217; (&#8216;Dum Maaro Dum&#8217;) and &#8216;I Love You&#8217; (&#8216;Bodyguard&#8217;).<\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ash King scoops Stardust Award for Best New Male Singing Sensation &#13; &#13; &#13; A SINGER from Southall has scooped a major Bollywood award. &#13; Singer, songwriter Ash King was in Mumbai to collect his Best New Male Singing Sensation award at the prestigious Stardust Awards. &#13; The singer is becoming a regular on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}