Birth Date: 06 Mar, 1986, Age (38)

Occupation : Artist, Composer

Place of Birth : Kanpur

Ankit Tiwari

Ankit Tiwari is an Indian music director and playback singer and also an actor. His career began upon to meeting Pradeep Sarkar where he got a chance to work on jingles and started composing background music for television programmes. Subsequently, he was offered to compose music for Do Dooni Chaar (2010) and Saheb, Biwi Aur Gangster (2011), where he started his singing career with the song he composed for the later.

In 2013, he released his third song, "Sunn Raha Hai" from Aashiqui 2. This song was a huge success and was received very well all over the world, the song along with its album was nominated for two Filmfare Awards winning the Best Music Director Award for the album along with Mithoon and Jeet Gannguli. In 2014, he again collaborated with Mohit Suri—director of the film Aashiqui 2—for Ek Villain, where he composed and sung second superhit track "Galliyan". For the track he received another two nominations in Filmfare Awards winning Best Male Playback Singer Award. He also recorded song "O Yara" for the Pakistani film, Bin Roye, which top the charts.