Abhijeet was born in a Bengali family in Kanpur on 30 October 1958. He started singing on stage from 1970. Abhijeet left home for Mumbai in 1981 to study Chartered Accountancy. Due to his fascination for singing and music, he decided to pursue a career in playback singing and quit Chartered Accountancy.
In the start, he was offered by Rahul Dev Burman to sing for Dev Anand's son’s debut film. In the 1990s, Abhijeet became playback singer. His songs include work from the film Baaghi, composed by Anand-Milind - Ek chanchal shokh hasina, Chandni raat hai and Har kasam se badi hai. Then in 1994 when he performed for movies like Yeh Dillagi, Anjaam, Raja Babu and Main Khiladi Tu Anari. He won the Filmfare Best Playback singer Award for Yes Boss in 1997. He went on to record for the moviesBaadshah, Yes Boss, Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge, Josh, Dhadkan, Chalte Chalte, Main Hoon Na and many others.
Abhijeet has given his voice for actors such as Mithun Chakraborty, Shahrukh Khan, Sunil Shetty, Jackie Shroff, Anil Kapoor, Akshay Kumar, Govinda, Sanjay Dutt, Sunny Deol, Saif Ali Khan, Bobby Deol, Salman Khan, Aamir Khan, Hrithik Roshan and Ajay Devgan, among many others.
He also worked as a Judge in a reality show called Star Voice of India and "Ek Se Badkhar Ek". In this show, Abhijeet commented on Atif Aslam that he can not sing, for which he was criticized by the Indian public.
Abhijeet has recorded non-film pop music. He released two albums, Main Deewana Hoon and Tapori No.1. Later he launched Aashiqui. He released a pop album, called Tere Bina. On May 3, 2006, he released another non-film album called Lamhe.
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