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Padmanav Bordoloi

Indian playback singer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ27916492 ↗
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Padmanav Bordoloi is an Indian singer, performer, songwriter, music composer and anchor from the state of Assam. He has sung many songs in Assamese, Hindi, Nepali, Bengali, Marathi and English. He was nominated for Global Indian Music Academy (GIMA) Award 2016 for the Best Music Debut Non-Film segment for his first ever Hindi composition Teri Jo Baatein Hain. Padmanav is the second male singer from Assam to be nominated for this coveted title after Angaraag Papon Mahanta.

Early life

Padmanav Bordoloi was born to Bipul Sharma Bordoloi and Pranita Sharma Bordoloi on 24 August 1988 in Guwahati, Assam. He was trained Hindustani Classical music and Western classical music.

Career

Padmanav, who was the first Assamese to become a finalist in Indian Idol 2007, and later went on to become a finalist in SaReGaMaPa 2013 . Teri Jo Baatein Hain has earned Padmanav the nomination for GIMA Award. His debut solo Assamese audio album is Dhwani which was released in 2010. He debuted as songwriter and composer in his bilingual album Raastey(Aalibaat) in 2014.

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“Padmanav Bordoloi” enters the record as indian playback singer. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Padmanav, Bordoloi and Indian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q27916492. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2016, 1988, 2007 and 2013.

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