Name Rezwana Bannya Website www.rezwanabannya.com | ||
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Occupation(s) singer, associate professor Role Singer · rezwanabannya.com Albums Swapner Aabhase, Sudurer Mita, Ononto Gogone Similar People Debabrata Biswas, Suchitra Mitra, Sagar Sen, Indrani Sen, Srabani Sen Profiles | ||
Native name রেজওয়ানা চৌধুরী বন্যা Education Visva-Bharati University | ||
Valobashi valobashi rezwana choudhury bannya rabindra sangeet full audio album
Rezwana Choudhury Bannya is a Bangladeshi singer. She is an exponent of Rabindra Sangeet, the songs written and composed by Rabindranath Tagore. She won Independence Day Award (2016) by the Government of Bangladesh.
Contents
- Valobashi valobashi rezwana choudhury bannya rabindra sangeet full audio album
- Kotobaro bhebechinu taposh feat rezwana choudhury bannya omz wind of change s 01
- Early life
- Career
- Awards
- References
Kotobaro bhebechinu taposh feat rezwana choudhury bannya omz wind of change s 01
Early life
Rezwana was born in Rangpur, Bangladesh to her parents Mazharuddin Khan and Ismat Ara Khan. Her early singing lessons started with her uncle Abdul Ali that continued later under the tutelage of Sanjida Khatun and Atiqul Islam at Chhayanat and Bulbul Academy of Fine Arts (BAFA) in Dhaka. As she continued taking lessons in music and singing, she also joined the Economics Program at the university after completion of her schooling. However, soon her inner- self-came to the realization that music was her destiny. She received a scholarship from the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) to study in Santiniketan, the university that was founded by Tagore himself. She took lessons from artists including Kanika Bandyopadhyay, Nilima Sen, Shoilajaranjan Mazumdar, Santidev Ghosh, Gora Sarbadhikary, Manju Bandyopadhyay and Asesh Bandyopadhyay.
Career
Bannya is currently an associate professor in the Department of Music at the University of Dhaka. She also founded Shurer Dhara in 1992, a school for learning music in Dhaka.
In 2010, in order to commemorate the 150th birth anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore, she brought out a complete audio version of Gitobitan, called Sruti Gitobitan.