MUMBAI: Divyendu Sharma, Kiku Sharda and Harshad Chopra starrer 'The End', may not be the most talked about film of 2016, but the film's item track ‘Umariya’ is making heads turn and ears perk up. Anglo-Indian singer Lyla has nailed the track with her unique singing style.

The singer has been receiving positive reviews for her debut Bollywood track and she is overwhelmed with the response. “I am a very private person so I just had 300 friends on Facebook before the release of this song. But, post the release I have been getting 200 requests every day and almost 1000 messages. People, including critics, are liking the song and it is a great feeling. It’s great to get such good feedback from people who haven’t even seen me,” explains the singer.

Lyla, who began singing at 13, believes that singing is inborn. But her association with the art has been passed on for generations in her family. She inherited music as her father was a tabla instructor and her maternal grandfather - the late Shri Shankar Shambu Pandit was the first qawwal of India.

Lyla’s first Bollywood break, however, came after a few years of struggle. But the Bollywood gates are now wide open for the singer with her having bagged a few playback offers. “I was so much into creating music and doing live shows that I entered the industry late. Most singers start their musical journey in their teens, but I made my debut in my twenties. I just feel the time is now right and I am more equipped to handle the situations that come my way.”

Other than Bollywood, the artiste is working on her YouTube channel that she plans to populate with reworked versions of classic Bollywood songs. “I have been working on rearranging the melodies. These will not be the regular music that one hears. I will make them more modern. It will be more of a western collaboration.”

The first song that Lyla is looking to recreate is ‘Waqt Ne Kiya Kya Haseen Sitam’, after which she plans to work on A R Rahman’s ‘Dil Se Re’. “I would love to work with A R Rahman. I feel he would understand my body of work. I will be dedicating the reworked version of ‘Dil Se’ to him. The interpretation of the song is mine, but I have maintained the feel,” says the singer.

The singer-composer-songwriter can sing Indian pop, western, jazz, Bollywood, vocal trance, lounge, sufi, classical and Punjabi with equal finesse wants to work with well-known music composers like Pritam, Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy, Amaal Mallik and the newer lot of composers.

Check the song here.