Biography of rezwana bannya
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Rezwana Choudhury Bannya
Bangladeshi singer (born 1957)
Musical artist
Rezwana Choudhury Bannya (born 13 January 1957) is a singer from Bangladesh. She is an exponent of Rabindra Sangeet, the songs written and composed by Rabindranath Tagore.[2] She has won many awards including Bangladesh's highest civilian award, the Independence Day Award (2016)[3] and India's fourth highest civilian award, Padma Shri (2024).[4]
Early life
[edit]Rezwana was born in Rangpur, Bangladesh to her parents Mazharuddin Khan and Ismat Ara Khan.[5] Her early singing lessons began with her uncle Abdul Ali and continued later under the tutelage of Sanjida Khatun and Atiqul Islam at Chhayanaut 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 of Dhaka after completion of her schooling.[6] 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 Sangit Bhavana at Santiniketan, the university that was founded by Tagore himself. She took lessons from artistes including Kanika Bandyopadhyay, Nilima Sen, Sailajaranjan Majumdar
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Rezwana Chowdhury Bonna, is a contemporary Rabindra Sangeet singer - immensely popular, and widely hailed as one of the most versatile exponents of this musical genre, in both her native Bangladesh and in West Bengal, India . She is often referred to, by aficianados, solely by her nickname Bonna or Bannya, which translates into English as "deluge". She is the most acclaimed former proteges of Kanika Banerjee. (Tutelage at Visva Bharati) Banya has been singing from a very early age. As far as she can remember she had dreamt of going to and learning Rabindrasangeet at Visva-Bharati University, the university set up by nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore on his ancestral property. (Visva Bharati, to this day, remains a major center for learning Rabindra Sangeet in West Bengal, the other major university in India for this genre being Rabindra Bharati University. Over the years, both universities have developed distinctive styles of singing in this genre. Until the Visva Bharati's copyright of all of Tagore's songs expired, it was mandatory in India for any singer to obtain permission of the Music Board before cutting a record with songs composed by him.) Therefore it was no wonder that after Banya completed her initial training from Chhayanôt in Bangladesh, she
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Meet Rezwana Choudhury Bannya, a Bangladeshi defender of Rabindra Sangeet
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