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Alokesh "Bappi" Lahiri (born 27 November 1952) is well-known  music composer, music director, singer, actor, and record producer. He popularized the use of synthesized disco music in Indian cinema and sang some of his own compositions. He was popular in the 1980s and 1990s with filmi soundtracks like Wardat, Disco Dancer, Namak Halaal, Dance Dance, Commando, Gang Leader, Sailaab and Sharaabi among others.
Lahiri was born in Jalpaiguri, West Bengal. His parents, Aparesh Lahiri and Bansari Lahiri both from Jalpaiguri, West Bengal were famous Bengali singer and musician in classical music and Shyama Sangeet.
Initially he was trained by his parents. He moved to Mumbai when he was 19. He received his first opportunity in a Bengali film, Daadu (1974) and the first Hindi film for which he composed music was Nanha Shikari (1973). The first turning point of his career was Tahir Husain's Hindi film, Zakhmee (1975), for which he composed music and doubled as a playback singer. He sang a duet with Mohammed Rafi and Kishore Kumar called "Nothing Is Impossible" for the same film. His first popular film was Chalte Chalte (1976), whose songs became hits thus bringing him recognition as a music director. With Ravikant Nagaich's Surakksha 1979 his singing and music became even more popular. In the early 80s, he added an element of the then-popular disco music to his compositions, in movies such as Wardat 1981, Sahhas 1981, Laparwah 1981, Pyara Dushman 1980 song Hari Om Hari, Armaan 1981 song Ramba Ho Samba Ho

Mithun Chakraborty and Bappi Lahiri became synonyms of Indian disco culture in the 1980s, largely due to movies such as Disco Dancer. Some in the media have called him the "Disco King" of India
He has also composed music for some ghazals namely Kisi nazar ko tera intezaar aaj bhi hai and Aawaz di hai for the 1985 film Aitbaar. He used fusion music in a feature film Namak Halaal in the song "Pagh Ghungroo Bandh Meera Nache Te", a song 12 minutes long. Lahiri has composed over 5,000 songs in over 500 films. He has also composed music for three films made in Bangladesh. Bappi Lahiri composed the background score for a 1989 Hollywood Film "Eye Witness to Murder" which was produced by Vijay Amritraj and Directed by Jagmohan Mundra. He also gave the music for an Indian English language film Divine Lovers which was produced and directed by B.Subhash (Babbar Subhash) in 1997.
In November 1994 Lahiri started his music company, BL Sound (now called B9 Digital Studios Mumbai).
He introduced several Pop Singers like Usha Uthup, Sharon Prabhakar, Alisha Chinai, Parvati Khan, Bali Brahmabhatt, Vijay Benedict, Nandu Bhende, Remo Fernandes, Salma Agha, and film star Anil Kapoor, Amrish Puri, Padmini Kolhapure, Mandakini, and Amjad Khan to sing under his baton. Many prominent singers like Lata Mangeshkar, P.Susheela, Asha Bhosle, Kishore Kumar, Mohammed Rafi, Mukesh, Manna Dey, Yesudas, S. Janaki and the newer generation singers like K.S.Chitra, Kavita Krishnamurthy, Amit Kumar, Kumar Sanu, Udit Narayan, Suresh Wadkar, Sadhana Sargam, Sonu Nigam, Abhijeet Bhattacharya, S.P.Balasubramaniam, Alka Yagnik, Anuradha Paudwal, Shailender Singh, Shabbir Kumar, Vinod Rathod Mohammad Aziz, Sudesh Bhosle along with Gazal singers Jagjit Singh, Bhupinder Singh and Pankaj Udhas have sung songs composed by Bappi Lahiri in a career spanning for 40 years in over 600 films in over 5000 songs.
Bappi Lahiri is married to Chitrani since 24 January 1977. They have two children- daughter Rema Lahiri who is also a singer, she got married to a businessman Govind Bansal in February 2009, they have child name Swastik (Rego) Bansal, and son Bappa Lahiri who also became a music director, got married to Tanisha Varma in April 2012. Bappi Lahiri is very fond of jewellery and is usually seen wearing ornaments and dark glasses with a tracksuit.