The Silk Road or Silk Route was an ancient network of trade routes that were for centuries central to cultural interaction originally through regions of Eurasia connecting the East and West and stretching from the Korean peninsula and Japan to the Mediterranean Sea.
 The Silk Road concept refers to both the terrestrial and the maritime routes connecting Asia and Europe.
 The overland Steppe route stretching through the Eurasian steppe is considered the ancestor to the Silk Road(s).
The Maritime Silk Road, officially the 21st Century Maritime Silk Route Economic Belt ( is a Chinese strategic initiative to increase investment and foster collaboration across the historic Silk Road.
 China–Pakistan Economic Corridor is an extension to proposed Silk Road.
New Silk Route ("NSR" or New Silk Route Partners LLC) is a $1.4-billion private equity firm that invests in private companies in India, Asia, and the Middle East.
Mohit Chauhan (born 11 March 1966) is an Indian singer, most known for his work as a playback singer for Bollywood,Tollywood, & Kollywood movies as well as the former front-man of the Indipop band Silk Route.
 He is a two-time recipient of the Filmfare Award for Best Male Playback Singer and three times Zee Cine Award For Best Male Playback Singer as well as several other awards mentioned below.
The Silk Route Museum () is located in Jiuquan, Gansu Province along the Silk Road, a trading route connecting Rome to China, used by Marco Polo.
 It is also built over the tomb of the Xiliang King in Gansu Province.
 Founded by Mei Ping Wu and staffed by volunteers, the museum is dedicated to the fostering of an enhanced understanding between East and West.
Silk Route was a band from India consisting of Mohit Chauhan (lead vocals, backing guitars), Atul Mittal (lead guitars, clarinet and backing vocals), Kem Trivedi (keyboards) and Kenny Puri (percussion and drums).
Chinese embroidery has a long history since the Neolithic age.
 Because of the quality of silk fibre, most Chinese fine embroideries are made in silk.
 Some ancient vestiges of silk production have been found in various Neolithic sites dating back 5,000-6,000 years in China.
 Currently the earliest real sample of silk embroidery discovered in China is from a tomb in Mashan in Hubei province identified with the Zhanguo period (5th-3rd centuries BC).
 After the opening of Silk Route in the Han Dynasty, the silk production and trade flourished.
 In the 14th century, the Chinese silk embroidery production reached its high peak.
 Several major silk embroidery styles had been developed, like Song Jin (宋锦 Song embroidery) in Suzhou, Yun Jin (云锦 Cloud embroidery) in Nanjing and Shu Jin (蜀锦 Shu embroidery) in Sichuan.
Shingli bala is a village of Battagram District in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.
 It is part of Gijbori Union Council and lies within Battagram Tehsil and is located about four kilometres from the district headquarters Battagram along the Karakoram Highway(Shahrah-e-Resham) or silk route.
Ferdinand Freiherr von Richthofen (5 May 18336 October 1905), better known in English as Baron von Richthofen, was a German traveller, geographer, and scientist.
 He is noted for coining the terms "Seidenstraße" and "Seidenstraßen" = "Silk Road(s)" or "Silk Route(s)" in 1877.
 He also standardized the practices of chorography and chorology.
 He was an uncle of the World War I flying ace Manfred von Richthofen, best known as the "Red Baron".
Maritime Silk Road or Maritime Silk Route refer to the maritime section of historic Silk Road that connects China to Southeast Asia, Indonesian archipelago, Indian subcontinent, Arabian peninsula, all the way to Egypt and finally Europe, that flourished between 2nd-century BCE to 15th-century CE.

Question: What award has the former frontman of Silk Route won twice?
Answer: Filmfare Award for Best Male Playback Singer