Bad Salsa | |
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| Background information | |
| Origin | India |
| Genres | salsa |
| Years active | 2012–present |
| Members | Sonali Majumdar Maroju Samanth |
Bad Salsa are an Indiansalsa dancing duo that gained fame after winning thefourth season ofIndia's Got Talent.[1]
Both members of Bad Salsa have trained at The Bivash Academy of Dance inKolkata where the two met and started competing in national dance competitions in India under the name Bad Salsa.[2]
Sonali Majumdar is an Indian salsa dancer who started her career at the age of seven by participating in the fourth season ofIndia's Got Talent alongside her partner Sumanth Maroju.[3]
Majumdar hails from a farmer's family originally fromBagdah, a village in the Indian province ofWest Bengal near the border withBangladesh.[4]
Sumanth Maroju is an Indian salsa dancer who started his career at the age of thirteen by taking part in the fourth season ofIndia's Got Talent alongside his partner Sonali Majumdar.[5]
Maroju is originally fromBhubaneswar in the Indian state ofOdisha. His father is a railway employee and his mother is a housewife.[6]
Bad Salsa rose to prominence after competing in season 4 ofIndia's Got Talent onColors TV and winning the competition.[7] After this, the duo participated in many national and international dance competitions.
The duo then participated in thesixth season ofJhalak Dikhhla Jaa on Colors TV and finished in third place.[8] Bad Salsa also competed in the Indian dance reality television seriesDance Champions onStar Plus in 2017, finishing at tenth place.[9]
Internationally, the duo has also participated inITV'sBritain's Got Talent: The Champions[10][11] and thefifteenth season ofNBC'sAmerica's Got Talent where they emerged as a finalist.[12]