Prashant Tamang is famous singer who won Indian Idol awards. He spent most of his early life in Howrah region of Kolkata itself and studied at South Point School. After the demise of his father in an accident, Prashant left school and joined Kolkata Police as a constable in his father's place.
According to the Indian Idol programme commentary, Prashant auditioned for Indian Idol III (2007) because his friends and his seniors, especially Mr. Zulfiqar Hasan, Special Additional Commissioner of Police[6] (who incidentally also got Prashant's leave sanctioned for the competition) told him that his voice was very good. He auditioned for Indian Idol in Kolkata and was subsequently chosen for the next rounds. He received mixed comments from judges for his performances. He is the only contestant to have never been in the bottom three or four of the gala round. He made it to the top two of Indian Idol 3 along with Amit Paul. Prashant got about 10 times more votes (70 million votes) than Amit in the final and went on to win the Indian Idol contest.
