Bad Salsa

Bad Salsa
Background information
OriginIndia
Genressalsa
Years active2012–present
MembersSonali Majumdar
Maroju Samanth

Bad Salsa are an Indian salsa dancing duo that gained fame after winning the fourth season of India's Got Talent.[1]

Members

Both members of Bad Salsa have trained at The Bivash Academy of Dance in Kolkata where the two met and started competing in national dance competitions in India under the name Bad Salsa.[2]

Sonali Majumdar

Sonali Majumdar is an Indian salsa dancer who started her career at the age of seven by participating in the fourth season of India's Got Talent alongside her partner Sumanth Maroju.[3]

Majumdar hails from a farmer's family originally from Bagdah, a village in the Indian province of West Bengal near the border with Bangladesh.[4]

Sumanth Maroju

Sumanth Maroju is an Indian salsa dancer who started his career at the age of thirteen by taking part in the fourth season of India's Got Talent alongside his partner Sonali Majumdar.[5]

Maroju is originally from Bhubaneswar in the Indian state of Odisha. His father is a railway employee and his mother is a housewife.[6]

Career

Bad Salsa rose to prominence after competing in season 4 of India's Got Talent on Colors TV and winning the competition.[7] After this, the duo participated in many national and international dance competitions.

The duo then participated in the sixth season of Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa on Colors TV and finished in third place.[8] Bad Salsa also competed in the Indian dance reality television series Dance Champions on Star Plus in 2017, finishing at tenth place.[9]

Internationally, the duo has also participated in ITV's Britain's Got Talent: The Champions[10][11] and the fifteenth season of NBC's America's Got Talent where they emerged as a finalist.[12]

References

  1. ^ Sivastava, Priyanka (25 November 2012). "India's Got Talent Season 4 found its winners in two little salsa dancers". India Today. Living Media India Limited. Retrieved 15 July 2020.
  2. ^ M. Borah, Prabalika (4 June 2020). "Sumanth Maroju and Sonali Majumdar are anything but bad at Salsa". The Hindu. The Hindu Group. Retrieved 15 July 2020.
  3. ^ Nambiar, Smitha (23 November 2012). "Exclusive: Sumanth, Sonali win India's Got Talent Season 4". Filmibeat. Oneindia. Retrieved 15 July 2020.
  4. ^ "Sonali Majumdar Biography". Matpal. 2013. Retrieved 15 July 2020.
  5. ^ Kamdar, Shraddha (10 June 2020). "We want to put our Indian style of dance on the map". Femina. The Times Group. Retrieved 15 July 2020.
  6. ^ Kalyanaam, Rajeshwari (29 June 2020). "Indian dancing duo on America's Got Talent". The Hans India. Hyderabad Media House. Retrieved 15 July 2020.
  7. ^ "India's Got Talent crowns Bivash Academy of Dance as winners". Colors TV. Press Trust of India. 6 December 2012. Archived from the original on 1 May 2013. Retrieved 15 July 2020.
  8. ^ "Jhalak Dikhla Jaa: Sonali and Sumanth's top 5 performances". DNA India. Essel Group. 19 September 2013. Retrieved 15 July 2020.
  9. ^ Agate, Samantha (11 June 2020). "10 Facts about Bad Salsa: The Energetic Indian Dance Act on AGT". Talent Recap. Fremantle Media. Retrieved 15 July 2020.
  10. ^ "Susan Boyle finally confirmed for Britain's Got Talent: The Champions | Metro News". Metro. 2 June 2019. Retrieved 3 June 2019.
  11. ^ "Simon Cowell announces BRAND NEW Britain's Got Talent: The Champions😲". Heat. 15 February 2019. Retrieved 3 June 2019.
  12. ^ "Watch: Dancing Duo 'Bad Salsa' from India wow all at America's Got Talent audition". The Indian Express. Indian Express Group. 31 May 2020. Retrieved 15 July 2020.