Sonu Nigam was born on 30 July 1973 in Faridabad, Haryana, India. He changed the spelling of his surname from "Nigam" to "Niigaam". Sonu began singing at age three under the supervision of his father, Mr. Agam Kumar. At age 19 Sonu moved to Mumbai to pursue a career as a playback singer in Bollywood. Today Sonu is a well established Pop and playback singer in the Indian music industry and an actor in Bollywood. He sings and records music in Hindi, Kannada, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, English, Bhojpuri, Urdu and other Indo-Aryan languages.