Abhijeet Bhattacharya, better known as Abhijeet, is a Bollywood playback singer born to a Kanpur-based businessman turned editor Dhirendranath Bhattacharya, and his wife Kamladevi Bhattacharya in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh. Abhijeet was the youngest among the four sons in the family.

He married a fashion designer Sumati Bhattacharya in 1990 and has two sons Dhruv  and Jai Bhattacharya. He has sung 6034 songs in over 1000 films. Abhijeet got his first break by the greatest composer RD Burman and his debut film was Anand Aur Anand in which he got chance to sing alongside his idols and mentors Kishore Kumar, Asha Bhosle and Lata Mangeshkar.

Abhijeet got his second break in the film Baaghi with Anand Milind and after that his career began to flourish. He has sung songs in more than 18 languages including Bengali, Odia, Bhojpuri, Marathi and Gujarati. He won Film fare Award in 1997. He has also released many Indian pop albums. He has also judged Indian reality shows like Amul Star Voice Of India and Sa Re Ga Ma Pa and Sa Re Ga Ma Pa L'il Champs several times.