Abhijeet was born as Abhijeet Bhattacharya, in a middle-class Bengali family from Kanpur, India. Abhijeet was the youngest of four brothers. His parents were against his singing but Abhijeet went against his parent’s wishes to become a singer.

He came to Bombay in 1981 to study Chartered Accountancy. But owing to his fascination for singing and music he decided to pursue a career in playback singing .Despite being gifted with a melodious voice, he had to struggle for a very long time . But fate had to wait for success.

After a long struggle in Bombay when he received a call from R.D. Burman to sing for Dev Anand's sons debut film. Abhijeet also got to sing with Kishore Kumar, his idol, in the same film.

In the 1990's he got his due rewards when the songs of Baaghi of Anand-Milind, ‘Ek chanchal shokh hasina’, ‘Chandni raat hai’ and ‘Har kasam se badi hai’ were Superhits. Today Abhijeet is one of the top names when it comes to male playback singers. He has entrenched himself firmly in the music world, with several other hits like ‘Ole Ole’ in Yeh Dillagi, the title track of Main Khiladi Tu Anari, ‘Zara sa Jhoom loo main’ Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jaayenge ‘Teri ankhen jhuki jhuki’ Fareb, ‘Shaher Ki ladki’ Rakshak, ‘Jhanjhriya’ Krishna, ‘Tan tana tan tan tara’ Judwaa. Be it a Sunil Shetty, Anil Kapoor, Akshay Kumar, Saif Ali Khan, or Salman Khan, Shahrukh Khan and now Hrithik Roshan, Abhijeet has sung for them all. He performed for many films like Baaghi, Sadak, Khiladi, Raja Babu, Yeh Dillagi, Yes Boss, Baadshah, Josh and Dhadkan and many more. After his success in playback singing he thought of singing pop. He launched two albums, Main Deewana Hoon and Tapori No.1. But both albums did not click commercially. After these two pop albums, he launched Aashiqui, which was appreciated by audience. Recently he has launched a pop album, Tere Bina, whose songs and video are chartbusters.

He won the Filmfare award for the best singer for his song ‘Chand taare’ in Yes Boss. But some like the ‘Kurta phaadke’ song from Anari No. 1 did not do well but with Baadshah and after that most of the big banner movies and top music composers, the singer has once again hit the top charts.