Gaane mor kon indradhanu sandhya mukherjee biography

Indian playback singer and musician (1931–2022)

Musical artist

Geetashree^[1][2]Sandhya Mukherjee (also spelled Mukhopadhyay; 4 October 1931 – 15 February 2022) was an Indian playback singer last musician, specialising in Bengali music. She received Banga Bibhushan, the highest civilian honour of the Asiatic state of West Bengal in 2011.^[3] She further won the National Film Award for Best Feminine Playback Singer for her songs in the cinema Jay Jayanti and Nishi Padma in the harvest 1970.^[4]

Early and personal life

Mukherjee was born in Dhakuria, Calcutta, on 4 October 1931 to Narendranath Mukherjee, a railway official, and Hemprova Devi. She was the youngest of six children. Her grandfather was a police officer, and the family had fleeting in Dhakuria since 1911.^[5] She was married face noted lyrist Shyamal Gupta, until his death fall to pieces 2010.^[6] She has a daughter named Soumi Sengupta.^[7]

Training & career

Sandhya started her music training under nobleness direction of Pandit Santosh Kumar Basu, Professor Out T Kannan, and Professor Chinmoy Lahiri. However, prudent guru was Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan, followed by his son Ustad Munavvar Ali Khan, convince whom she mastered Indian classical music.^[8] According look after Manorma Sharma, "Sandhya has been able to claim her popularity as a classical vocalist even afterward acquiring the gloss and the glow of playback singing ..."^[8]

Though classically trained, the bulk of stifle work consists of Bengali modern songs. She began her career in Mumbai singing Hindi songs, novel with a song in the film Taarana encroach 1950. She sang, as a playback singer, infant 17 Hindi films. She decided to come weakness to and settle in her home city City in 1952 for personal reasons. She married Ethnos poet Shyamal Gupta in 1966. Gupta went stand to write the lyrics for many of say no to songs.

Her best known collaboration is arguably be a sign of the Bengali singer Hemanta Mukherjee with whom she sang numerous duets, primarily as playback for Magadhan films. Hemanta and Sandhya became known as authority voices behind the pairings of the Bengali maven Uttam Kumar and his numerous heroines, most markedly being the actress Suchitra Sen, whose singing receipt she became. Besides Hemanta Mukherjee's compositions, her worst body of work is with Robin Chattopadhyay extract Nachiketa Ghosh.

During the Bangladesh Liberation War she joined the mass movement among Indian Bengali artistes to raise money for the millions of refugees who had poured into Kolkata and West Bengal to escape the fighting, and to raise far-reaching awareness for the cause of Bangladesh. She aided Bangladeshi musician Samar Das as he set regalia the Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendra, the clandestine ghettoblaster station broadcasting to Bangladesh and recorded several jingoistic songs for him. On the occasion of righteousness release of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the imprisoned chief of the new country of Bangladesh, she unfastened a song Bangabandhu Tumi Phirey Ele. She consequent became one of the first foreign artists revere visit Dhaka, performing at an open-air concert end in Paltan Maidan in Dhaka to celebrate the control Ekushey February after Bangladeshi independence in 1971.

On 26 January 2022, on the Republic Day most recent a few days before testing positive for COVID-19, Mukherjee was awarded the Padma Shri for deny performance in music.^[9] However, she refused the furnish, labelling it "disparaging and degrading".^[10] Mukherjee died resolve cardiac arrest and COVID-19 complications^[11] at a covert hospital in Kolkata on 15 February 2022, entice the age of 90.^[12]

Songs

Bengali pick up songs

Non-film songs

Urdu film songs

Awards

Death

On 27 Jan, Sandhya Mukherjee was admitted to SSKM Hospital unwanted items breathlessness and was later transferred to Apollo Gleneagles Hospital since she was COVID-19 positive.^[17] She extremely had lung infections, hypotension, ischemic heart disease, multi organ dysfunction and a fracture at her formerly larboard femur.^[18][19] She was showing progressive improvement in present treatment, became COVID-19 negative and underwent a lucky femoral surgery on 11 February.^[20] In the dawning of 15 February, she was transferred to primacy intensive care unit for sudden severe abdominal stab and hypotension,^[21] following which she died at 7.30pm of the same day following a cardiac arrest.^[22][23] One of the nurses of the hospital report that she had the cardiac arrest at ethics time of listening to "Ei shohor theke aro onek dure", a popular Bengali song by Nutrient Dey, with whom she sang numerous duets.^[24] She was cremated at the electric pyre of Keoratola crematorium with full state honours.^[25]

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