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| About Hema |
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Hema, hails from Goa, in India and was born in Mumbai. Her talent was discovered at the tender age of six by her school teacher, Late Mrs. Sequiera and her uncle Gurudas Parrikar. She made her stage debut at 8 years, at the popular Navratri Festival where her talent was further endorsed by the Gujarati Samaj. From the age of 11yrs, Hema won the FIRST PRIZE at every music contest she contested in, for six years continuously, whether the contest was at the inter-state, national or international level, and whether the language was English, Hindi, Marathi etc., and whether the genre was Indian Classical, Light Indian Classical, Hindi film music, Western Pop music, or Spiritual Folk etc. She has accomplished the Sangeet Visharad in Indian Classical music, besides nurturing her passion for Western Pop music.
Since childhood Hema's countenance was such that she was always called the ''Happy Go Lucky Girl'', by her friends and teachers first, later by her professors, and then on by her colleagues in the music industry. Other than possessing a strong patriotic heart, Hema has proven to be a firm upholder of the highest Principals and Values throughout.
 She has successfully performed on T.V and live stage shows in almost all the states of India and the world over.Some of the Countries are U.S.A., UK, Germany, Belgium, Spain, Holland, Yugoslavia, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji Islands, West Indies, S. America, U.A.E., Bahrain, Oman, Qatar, Thailand, Nepal, Indonesia, Kuwait etc.
A Milestone achievement was her winning the GRAND PRIX at the 16th INTERNATIONAL POP SONG FESTIVAL '89 held in Germany.
She was also awarded the 'AUDIENCE DARLING PRIZE' here, and earned the nickname 'INDIAN NIGHTINGALE'. Competing with singers from twenty countries, she was the youngest amongst them all. The Indian Consul General congratulated Hema onachieving celebrity status in Germany.
In Belgrade, Hema again represented India at the International UNICEF Concert of Pop artistes, and performed live along with internationally acclaimed artistes.
Later Her first song-video, Choote Na Tera Saath on MTV Asia had the 'Mid-day' daily describing her voice as 'Sexy and Poignant'.
In the beginning of her career in Mumbai, Music Directors, Ranjit Barot and Louis Banks had Hema rendering maximum number of their jingles which in turn helped Hema’s survival in Mumbai. Popular jingles sung by her are for products such as Liril, Ponds, Melody Chocolates, Lipton, Sheetal Diva, Mango Frooty, Colgate & Action Shoes Etc. Her Jingle for ''Nima Sandal soap'' is being relayed for a record breaking Number of times, wherein Hema has sung in the Indian classical as well as The Western style.
She has written lyrics for several albums, one of which "Love Me" released by TIPS music, achieved a Platinum Disc. She has also rendered her voice for various HIT solo re-mix albums such as Punjaben, Laila Mein Laila, etc.
A major milestone achievement is her solo song Awaara Bhavaren from the film Sapnay which is till today the only song since 1997 to be on the No.1 position in almost all music countdowns, for more than twelve weeks in a row. Awaara Bhavaren, music - directed by A.R. Rehman, is included by H.M.V. in its top 50 best selling songs since the beginning of Hindi Film Music. With this song, Hema got Recognition far and wide, achieving the status of STAR Playback Singer and Celebrity.
On 15th August 1997 Hema was bestowed the rare honour of being the only other female singer other than Lata Mangeshkar to perform at the celebrations for the 50th year of India's Independence. She sang one of her own compositions, Mere Vatan Hindustan at Vijay Chowk in New Delhi witnessed by an audience of nearly 3 lakh people. The Song was especially composed by Hema for the occasion.
On 14th March 1998 Proved her versatility yet again with her performance along with Europe's. Famous Pop Star "WHIG-FIELD" at the prestigious LUX Zee Cine Awards Hema was the only female Playback and Pop Singer of India chosen to perform on this platform at day .
MTV announced Hema as "THE QUEEN OF SONGS" in Jan 2000, Movers and Shakers Sony TV, announced Hema as "the most happening girl in the Music scene, Vivacious, Versatile and full of fun" in Feb 2000, Hema is the only successful female singer in playback as well as Pop music in India today.
"Hindustani Gudiya" her first Pop Album released in 1998, ws the hottest selling and only female Pop Album on the No.1 Position for more than five weeks on the Pop Music countdowns. The first video was shot in Nepal and got the maximum replays on MTV, etc. MTV declared that Hema had achieved POP STAR status with the success of the album. In the Channel [V] awards Hema was nominated for the 'Best Indian Female Singer' for this Hit Album.
"Piya Se Milke Aaye Nain" released in 1999, won Hema an award for "the best selling album of the season" and was acclaimed a "Super" success by the Tips Music Company . Dolls were sold internationally by an international toy company, which played from a machine within its body, the famous ''Piya Se Milke Aaye Nain'song while rocking a baby doll in its arms. ZEE Music awards nominated Hema for the 'Best Female Pop Album' for this HIT album.
"Sajnaa" Hema's Third Pop Album has again been the hottest selling female album in 2001. For this album, the B4u Music Channel endorsed Hema on their Channel as the 'Indian Nightingale' in their 'Singer of the Nation' episodes.
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"Coca Cola" announced Hema as "THE QUEEN OF INDIPOP" in November 2001. Hema is the only youngest most successful female singer in mostly all Genres of Music such as, Playback as well as Pop music and Spiritual as well as Folk music and Western music as well as Indian Classical music, in India today. |
| Hema rendered a song titled ''Sajnaa'' for the first Pop album of Ismail Darbar named "Rasiya Saajan". |
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| Hema was presented the VISHALAKSHI Award for International Woman Achievers at the International Woman's Conference, June '07. |
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In Feb 2008, Hema was chosen to be 'Celebrity Judge' at one of the special episodes of óne of the most popular reality shows, K for Kishore', on Sony Channel. Due to popular demand Hema was yet again invited to be Celebrity Judge for the two Grand Finale Episodes of K for Kishore and was the only female judge in the finale other than Asha bhosle, along with other Judges such as Anu Malik, Bappi Lehri, Jatin, Amit Kumar, Kumar Sanu and Sudesh Bhosle. |
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Other than being a Superhit Singer, due to her sincere activities in social work such as 'Save The Girl Child' campaign, plea against drug addiction and outrage against pedophiles, and the 'Save Goa' issue, etc Hema is now addressed by the media as Singer and Social Activist. |
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Hema has performed live in super hit International and national concerts of great Film Stars such as Shahrukh Khan, Salman Khan, Akshay Kumar, Madhuri Dixit and also with Shilpa Shetty, Karishma Kapoor, Urmila Matondkar, Raveena Tandon, Amisha Patel, Isha Khopikar and many more.
Hema has been an integral part of great hit concerts of famous Indian Music Directors such as Anu Malik, Nadeem Shravan, Bappi Lahiri, Ravindra Jain, Adesh Shrivastav, Dilip Sen Samir Sen, Anand Raj Anand etc.
Hema has been the ‘Favourite’ Artiste of Most Adored Shows of Music Channels in India and Abroad, such as MTV, B4U, Channel V, Zee Music, etc., wherein she performed along with, one can almost say all of, the well known pop and playback artistes and her performance has always been rated in the topmost bracket, with VJ’s openly announcing her as an artiste exuding the most charismatic stage presence and being one of the most favourite of all.
Sufi Jannat is the biggest hit Sufi album, in all countdowns, since September 2008 when it was released and is a compilation of Sufi hits by some of the greatest Sufi Artistes such as Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan etc. Hema’s song ‘Maula Ali’ from the album, has been highly acclaimed and proves that Hema is the youngest most successful Female Sufi Artiste, today. Unknown to Hema, until she was informed about it, an ardent Fan of the song has even gone on to make a video of the song and release it on ‘youtube.com’ as his own tribute to it.
On special request, after composing, writing and rendering the most loved ‘Power of Life’ for the ‘Girl Child’ at the AoL International Woman’s conference in June 2008, and Hema once again, composed, wrote and rendered ‘She is a Leader’ for empowerment of woman, for the AoL International woman’s conference held in Feb 2009. For the 2010 International women's conference held in Bali, Indonesia in March yet again Hema composed, wrote and rendered a new song, tiltled - THE WORLD BELONGS TO YOU
HEMA HAS BEEN ACCLAIMED AS BESTSELLING ARTISTE OF THE GLOBAL WEBSITE artistaloud.com Recently in 2010, Hema Serdesai's songs were released on artistaloud.com globally on their exclusive website along with those of other well known Artistes such as Abhijeet, Roopkumar Rathod, Jatin Pandit etc. With the immediate successful response from fans all over, Hema was announced the first 'Artiste of the Week'. Her songs 'Maula Ali' and 'She is a Leader' which were also in the top ten at various times have gone on to be 'Song of the week' and 'Song of the Day' respectfully, and now are bestsellers. Her latest Bestseller is yet a another song released on Woman’s Day 2011, titled ‘She Is A Winner’
Hema rendered songs live at Azad Maidan, for none other than Shri Anna Hazare ji himself at his meet, just prior to his historical fast, in Mumbai in August 2011.
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| INTERNATIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS |
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 | A Milestone achievement was her winning the GRAND PRIX at the 16th INTERNATIONAL POP SONG FESTIVAL '89 held in Germany, where Hema represented India. She was also awarded the 'AUDIENCE DARLING PRIZE' here, and was called the "'Indian Nightingale "' by the German Media. |
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| Hema Represented India yet again for the International UNICEF concert held in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. |
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| Hema wrote and rendered songs for the English version of 'Maine Pyar Kiya', which broke records in sales in West Indies, Guyana etc. Hema was then interviewed by a New York Television channel in the USA on her achieving STAR status in those countries. |
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| In the western music area, Hema has worked with the likes of Tony Mercedes, ex-producer of LAFACE records USA, who has worked with and produced and released albums of the Internationally famous artistes like TONY BRAXTON, TLC etc.
Tony Mercedes has spent a huge sum of US Dollars towards recording songs with Hema in Atlanta USA, a project awaiting completion. |
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| Hema has worked with and recorded songs with the Internationally well-known BETTY WRIGHT, at her studio in Miami, Florida, in the USA |
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| Hema has recorded a duet song with one member of the Internationally famous vanilla Ice team, in Lexington, Georgia, in the USA |
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| She has successfully performed on T.V and live stage shows all over India and the world over. The Countries are U.S.A., UK, Germany, Belgium, Spain, Holland, Yugoslavia, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji Islands, West Indies, S. America, U.A.E., Bahrain, Oman, Qatar, Thailand, Nepal, Indonesia, Kuwait, etc. |
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| At the ZEE Music Award nite, Hema's performance with the International Chart buster Singer, of ''Saturday Night'' song fame WHIGFIELD from Sweden, was acclaimed the highlight of the evening. |
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