Alisha Chinai is a singer of pop music in India. Biography Born in 1972 as Sujata, she is popular as Alisha Chinai (shortened to Alisha). She is also known as the "Indian Madonna" (she was first known as Babydoll but an image change later resulted in the "Madonna" moniker). A little known fact is that Sujata changed her name to that of her cousin's daughter Alisha (also Chinai) after she was born. Alisha Chinai (her cousin's daughter) is now a fashion accessory designer in India with her label Be? Accessories. Career Chinai was discovered by veteran music director and composer Bappi Lahiri. They had many disco hits together in many films in the 1980s including Dance Dance, Commando, Guru, Love Love Love etc. When she started her career with him, she was doing playback singing for many actresses, such as Smita Patil, Mandakini, Sridevi, Juhi Chawla, Madhuri Dixit and Divya Bharati etc. I

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