Abhijeet Sawant was born on October 7, 1981 in Mumbai, India. He was the winner of India’s first musical reality show Indian Idol. Abhijeet beated another strong contestant, Amit Sana, for the title of First Indian Idol by rendering his famous song Mohabbatein lutaaonga mein chedd ke mann ka saaj in the final episode or grand finale. The prize given to him after winning the title was a contract worth Rs 1 crore from Sony Entertainment and a car.

After the title of first Indian Idol, his first solo album titled Aap ka Abhijeet was released on April 7, 2005. As expected the album did reasonabaly well in Indian market. After the success of his first album, he released his second album in the form of Junoon which also proved out to be a big success too. He also competed in the first edition of Asian idol which was held in Jakarta, Indonesia. Right now he is competing with some other fine singers in the Star Plus musical show Jo Jeeta Wohi Superstar. He has also done playback singing in some bollywood movie too.

Some of the hit songs sung by Abhijeet Sawant are:

1. Mohabbatein lutaoonga main chedd ke mann ka saaj aaj fir gaoonga is manzar ko is pal ko bhool naa paoonga main bhool ise naa paoonga
2. Lafzon mein keh naa sakoon ab chup bhi reh naa sakoon nasha hi nasha raat din hai naa poocho kya mera haal hai
3. Mar jawan mit jawan mar jawan ishq mein dil kya jaan bhi naam tere kar jawan mar jawan
4. Kya tujhe patya hai main tujhe kitna pyaar karta hoon tere chahat ke sadke
5. Yeh mere dil mein kaisa junoon mann ko kyun na mile ab sukoon dillagi ka junoon, zindagi ka junoon junoon junoon chad raha hai