India, Jan. 28 -- Arijit Singh's rise as a singer has many twists and turns that can make for a Bollywood blockbuster. Growing up in Murshidabad, West Bengal, Singh was trained in classical music - and his guru barred him from listening to popular music - before he attracted national fame as a singer in a reality show in 2005, and later, as a Bollywood singer. In 2025, he was billed as the most popular star on Spotify with 151 million followers, more than what global stars including Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran had. This had more to do with the desi music lovers, of course, but the numbers reveal the billing he had among lovers of a certain kind of music. Now, at 38, he has taken the music world by surprise, announcing that he was "calling...