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Baba Sehgal born as Harjeet Singh Sehgal is an Indian rapper-singer-actor. He was born on 23 November 1964 in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. It is a lesser known fact that Baba has a B Tech in Electrical Engineering from Pantnagar University, Uttarakhand. He left his hometown at the age of 18 to make a career in singing.
He is the first Indian rapper. The songs sung by him are mostly also written and composed by him. Not many would know that he is extremely popular in the South and has sung over 100 Telugu songs.
Geeta Dutt was born as Geeta Ghosh Roy Chowdhuri on 23 November 1930, in Faridpur District, Bengal Presidency, British India. She was trained and groomed in singing by K Hanuman Prasad. It was Prasad who launched her into singing for movies.
Dutt got her first break in the industry in the year 1946, with an opportunity to sing in the mythological film, Bhakta Prahlad. Though she only got two lines to sing in the song, this nonetheless was her break in the Hindi film industry.
Dutt was known for her ability to swap from traditional songs to Western-styled tunes with ease. She is still considered to be one of the finest voices that the film industry ever had.
Miley Ray Cyrus was born as Destiny Hope Cyrus on 23 November 1992 in Franklin, Tennessee. She is an actor-singer by profession. Cyrus decided to take up acting as a profession in the year 2001, though she had already started writing songs in her preteens.
She started her acting career with a role in family-medical-drama-series, called Doc. But her big break and claim to fame was in 2006 with Disney’s television show, Hannah Montana.
She was included in TIME Magazine's list of the 100 Most Influential People in both 2008 and 2014. Her net worth as of 2017 is $200 Million.
Sajid Kamran Khan is an Indian director-script writer. He was born on 23 November 1970 in Mumbai. Many wouldn’t know that Khan and Ajay Devgn were from the same college, Mumbai’s Mithibai College, and have been good friends since then.
He started DJ-ing at the age of 16 in various parties and social events. He formally began his career in 1995 with a television show. However, his directorial debut was in 2006 with one of the short films in the anthology Darna Zaroori Hai. Since then he has written and directed many successful films, like the Housefull series.
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