
Arijit Singh was born on April 25, 1987 in Jiaganj, Murshidabad, West Bengal to Kakkar Singh, a Punjabi Sikh father and Aditi Singh, a Bengali Hindu mother.

Arijit Singh was born on April 25, 1987 in Jiaganj, Murshidabad, West Bengal to Kakkar Singh, a Punjabi Sikh father and Aditi Singh, a Bengali Hindu mother.

Arijit began his music training at a very young age at home. He was taught Indian classical music by Rajendra Prasad Hazari and trained in tabla by Dhirendra Prasad Hazari. Birendra Prasad Hazari taught him Rabindra Sangeet and pop music. At the age of three, he started training under the Hazari brothers, and at the age of nine, he got a scholarship for training in vocals in Indian classical music.

Arijit Singh was one of the participants of singing reality show ‘Fame Gurukul’ in 2005.

Arijit spent a part of his early musical career as a music programmer and music producer for music directors such as Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy, Mithoon, Vishal–Shekhar, Monty Sharma and Pritam.