Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer
The Filmfare Best Female Playback Award is given by Filmfare as part of its annual Filmfare Awards for Hindi films, to recognise a female playback singer who has delivered an outstanding performance in a film song.
The 2024 recipient: Shilpa Rao
Lata Mangeshkar was the first winner in this category for her rendition of "Aaja Re Pardesi" from Madhumati (1958).
Asha Bhosle received this award seven times from twenty nominations. She is the only female vocalist to have won four times consecutively.
Vani Jairam won for her contribution to the song "Mere To Giridhar Gopal" from Meera (1979).
The Filmfare Awards are annual awards that honour artistic and technical excellence in the Hindi-language film industry of India. The Filmfare ceremony is one of the most famous film events in India. The awards were introduced by the Filmfare magazine of The Times Group in 1954, the same year as the National Film Awards. They were initially referred to as the "Clare Awards" or "The Clares" after Clare Mendonça, the editor of The Times of India and modelled after the Academy Awards.
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