Early years in musical career Shaan began his career singing jingles for advertisements. Along with jingles, began to sing remixes and cover versions. His very first song was "A Te Apple Kheye", which was released in 1977. Shaan released his very first album ''It's Time To Dance'' in 1987. Later in 1990, he collaborated for the first time with Bally Sagoo to record the track titled "Mele Wich Aaye" and featured in Bally Sagoo's debut album
Wham Bam. The following year, they recorded another track titled "Nakhro De Nakhre" that appeared in Sagoo's second album
Star Crazy. Shaan and his sister signed up with
Magnasound recording company and recorded a few successful albums, including the hit album
Naujawan (1996) followed by
Q-Funk. Before that, he recorded his first English song "Heads Over Heels" in the album
Stylebhai in 1994 and his first Hindi song "Silsile", featuring Shweta Shetty was recorded in 1995 as a part of the album
Shweta - The New Album. Later in 1997, Shaan released
Love-Ology after this, which was his first independent solo album. In 2000, he sang a superhit song
"Tanha Dil" (transl. Lonely heart) from his second independent solo album Tanha Dil. In the same year, he also sang his first Assamese song "Hatore Aanguli" that appears on the album
Mann. In 2002, he won the
MTV Asia Award for Favorite Artist India for best solo album for his album
Tanha Dil. One year later, Shaan released his third independent solo album
Aksar, which was successful and contained songs featuring international stars such as
Blue,
Melanie C and
Samira Said. For both the albums
Tanha Dil and
Aksar, all the songs were sung by Shaan, composed by Ram Sampath and written by both Shaan and Ram Sampath. He released
Tomar Aakash in 2004, a Bengali album, along with his sister and featuring his father's unreleased songs. In 2006, he released a song with
MLTR, "Take me to your heart". The song appears on his fourth independent solo album
Tishnagi, which is produced by
Ranjit Barot and engineered by Ashish Manchanda.
Career in playback singing Shaan made his playback singing debut in 1999 in the movie
Pyaar Mein Kabhi Kabhi where he sung two songs in the film. The song "Musu Musu Hasi" instantly struck a chord among the viewers and was very relatable to the youth. In 2023, Shan performed at a musical concert in Boston, organised by the Jay-Ho! The concert highlighted how music can bring people together, creating a joyful and entertaining atmosphere. It also demonstrated the strong affection and loyalty that Boston residents have for Shaan and his music. He has recently recorded a playback for an upcoming
Bengali feature film
Network which is composed by
Dabbu. In 2023, Shaan recorded a romantic song composed by
Pritam for
Shah Rukh Khan in
Dunki.
Work as host and judge Shaan first appeared the television show
Channel V Music Awards as a guest host with his sister in 1996. Later, he mainly hosted the television show
Sa Re Ga Ma Pa on
Zee TV between the years 2000 to 2006. Shaan is a team captain, judge and mentor on
STAR Plus's
Music Ka Maha Muqqabla for the team
Shaan's Strikers. Shaan appeared as a judge in
''Sa Re Ga Ma Pa L'il Champs 2014–2015 and
The Voice India Kids'' 2016. In 2015 and 2016, Shaan was the winning coach in each of the first two seasons of The Voice. He appeared as a judge in Bengali reality show '
Super Singer Season 2' (2020) and 'Super_Singer (Bengali TV series)#Season 4Super Singer Season 4' (2023). ==Discography==