Jolly Mukherjee (born in 1 October 1956) is an Indian singer who specializes in the music of

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. He started his career as a backing singer for commercials, then moving on to writing music for airline on-flight introductions, where he sometimes wrote for

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. His roots include a mixture of

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and Western music. With the Madras Cinematic Orchestra, he recorded the album Fusebox, which included remixes from

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and Badmarsh & Shri. He provided the string arrangements for Icelandic singer

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's song "Verandi".

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