He became a music producer and began composing music and singing pieces for advertisements, news channels and radio stations. He invested the prize money of ₹ 10 Lakh from 10 ke 10 Le Gaye Dil to build his recording studio. He chose to move to Mumbai in 2006 to freelance, staying in a rented room in the Lokhandwala area of the city.
He participated in another reality show 10 Ke 10 Le Gaye Dil and won. After the Fame Gurukul, Kumar Taurani, the head of Tips, signed him for an album which was never released. During production, the script changed and the song was no longer required. ĭuring the show, filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali recognized his talent and had him sing "Yun Shabnami" a song scheduled to be used in his upcoming film Saawariya. He was eliminated by audience polling, finishing in sixth place. Singh's musical career began when his guru Rajendra Prasad Hazari, who felt that "Indian classical music was a dying tradition", insisted him to leave his hometown and participate in the reality show Fame Gurukul (2005) at the age of 18. He idolized musicians like Bade Ghulam Ali Khan, Ustad Rashid Khan, Zakir Hussain and Anand Chatterjee, and enjoyed listening to Kishore Kumar, Hemant Kumar and, Manna Dey. Growing up, he listened to Mozart, Beethoven and Bengali classical music. At the age of three, he started training under the Hazari brothers, and at the age of nine, he got a scholarship from the government for training in vocals in Indian classical music. Birendra Prasad Hazari taught him Rabindra Sangeet (songs written and composed by Rabindranath Tagore) and pop music. He was taught Indian classical music by Rajendra Prasad Hazari and trained in tabla by Dhirendra Prasad Hazari. According to him he "was a decent student, but cared more about music" and his parents decided to train him professionally. He studied at Raja Bijay Singh High School and later at the Sripat Singh College, a University of Kalyani affiliate. His maternal uncle played the tabla, and his mother also sang and played the tabla.
His maternal aunt trained in Indian classical music, and his maternal grandmother used to sing. He began his music training at a very young age at home. His paternal family came from Lahore during the Partition.
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