Her real name is Sadhana Ghanekar and she got music in her blood her mother Neela is a well known classical singer and music teacher. Sadhana intensely musical environment made any other field of activity inconceivable for the tot who had her first tryst with musical training at the age of 4.She would sing on stage with the late Vasant Desai. He would also employ her voice in documentaries and short films. Sadhana won a Central Government scholarship in classica

Sadhana mother knew arranger composer Anil Mohile, who was then arranging music for Kalyanji Anandji. He introduced Sadhana to them, and she was in the children chorus in Pam Pararampam, Bole Jeevan Ki Sargam sung by Kishore Kumar in G. P. Sippy Trishna (1978).After the recording, he introduced her to Kalyanji, who christened the girl as Sadhana Sargam and took her under his wing. Sadhana recorded her career first song for their Gujarati film Kanku Pagli. The first Hindi song she sang for them was Door Nahin Rehna (Rustom), a film which was delayed and released only in 1985 and sank.