It was a long wait but I was overwhelmed with the response. It finally started coming out in 1998, when I was 25. I was famous but I wanted to have my independent music and independent films. When ‘Tu’ released in 1998, I was already seven years old in Mumbai and my show Sa Re Ga Ma was going on for over three years with great TRPs. Was coming in front of camera, an organic switch? “I was waiting for it! This was quite late. With an equally magnetic screen presence Sonu found humongous fame in no time.
He also became India’s first singer to host a reality show – Sa Re Ga Ma around the same time. While Sonu was becoming the most sought after voice in playback singing, he also began churning out his solo albums and featuring in them. After years of struggle, Border, Pardes and Dil Se happened around 1997-1998. Sonu started singing at a very young age and took it up professionally in early 1990s.
