Armaan Malik recalls how Salman Khan gave him a break in Bollywood: ‘Just wanted to play our album for him’

Armaan Malik will compete in a decade within the music business subsequent 12 months. He launched himself as a singer along with his self-titled album in 2014. That similar 12 months, he additionally acquired his playback singing break with Jai Ho. The singer shared that it was Salman Khan who preferred certainly one of his songs from his debut album and took it for his movie Jai Ho. He and his brother, composer Amaal Malik, had approached the actor desirous to get suggestions from him on the album. (Also learn: Armaan Malik: You have to belief your self sufficient)

In Jai Ho, Armaan sang the quantity Tumko Toh Aana Hi Tha. Before this, he had sung the music Bum Bum Bole in Taare Zameen Par in 2007 as a toddler artist. Since then, he has gone on to sing songs in Telugu, English, Bengali, Kannada, Marathi, Tamil, Gujarati, Punjabi, Urdu and Malayalam. Armaan additionally collaborated with English singer Ed Sheeran on the music 2step in 2022. But all of it started with Salman selecting his music for Jai Ho.

Speaking to Humans of Bombay on their YouTube channel, Armaan shared how an opportunity assembly with the actor led to an even bigger break. He recalled, “Salman bhai came to launch my album in 2014. It was a self-titled album, Armaan. When we went to meet him, both Amaal and I, we just wanted to play our album for him. He said himself, ‘I’m going to come and launch this.'”

He continued, “We just wanted him to listen to it, probably share it. At that time, Twitter was very new, Insta was very new. We just wanted him to support it in whatever way. He went ahead and said I’ll come for the album launch. Then he went on to remove one of the songs from the album and put it in Jai Ho, his movie. That gave me my Bollywood debut as an adult playback singer.”

Last 12 months, he additionally shared with Hindustan Times why he needed to pursue extra avenues in music aside from movie songs. He had stated, “But there was a degree once I needed to precise myself by means of my music. That’s once I determined to take a flight to LA, put a pause on every thing else and simply focus on making music that I needed to make. That conviction, generally has to return from inside your self. You have to belief your self sufficient to know you’re making the fitting resolution for your self. That’s what I did.”