Bad Salsa Explained

Bad Salsa
Origin:India
Genre:salsa
Years Active:2012–present
Current Members:Sonali 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 [10] [11] and the fifteenth season of NBC's America's Got Talent where they emerged as a finalist.[12]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: India's Got Talent Season 4 found its winners in two little salsa dancers . Sivastava. Priyanka. November 25, 2012. . . July 15, 2020 .
  2. Web site: Sumanth Maroju and Sonali Majumdar are anything but bad at Salsa. M. Borah. Prabalika. June 4, 2020. . . July 15, 2020 .
  3. Web site: Exclusive: Sumanth, Sonali win India's Got Talent Season 4. Nambiar. Smitha. November 23, 2012. . Oneindia. July 15, 2020 .
  4. Web site: Sonali Majumdar Biography. 2013. Matpal . July 15, 2020 .
  5. Web site: We want to put our Indian style of dance on the map. Kamdar. Shraddha. June 10, 2020. . . July 15, 2020 .
  6. Web site: Indian dancing duo on America's Got Talent. Kalyanaam. Rajeshwari. June 29, 2020. . . July 15, 2020 .
  7. Web site: India's Got Talent crowns Bivash Academy of Dance as winners. https://web.archive.org/web/20130501160730/http://colors.in.com/in/indias-got-talent/news-indias-got-talent-crowns-bivash-academy-of-dance-as-winners-377.html. dead. May 1, 2013. December 6, 2012. Colors TV. . July 15, 2020 .
  8. Web site: Jhalak Dikhla Jaa: Sonali and Sumanth's top 5 performances . September 19, 2013. DNA India. . July 15, 2020 .
  9. Web site: 10 Facts about Bad Salsa: The Energetic Indian Dance Act on AGT . Agate. Samantha. June 11, 2020. Talent Recap. . July 15, 2020 .
  10. Web site: Susan Boyle finally confirmed for Britain's Got Talent: The Champions | Metro News . 2 June 2019 . . 2019-06-03.
  11. Web site: Simon Cowell announces BRAND NEW Britain's Got Talent: The Champions . . 2019-02-15 . 2019-06-03.
  12. Web site: Watch: Dancing Duo 'Bad Salsa' from India wow all at America's Got Talent audition . May 31, 2020. The Indian Express. . July 15, 2020 .

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