Mita Haque (6 September 1962 – 11 April 2021) was a Bangladeshi

Rabindra Sangeet ''Rabindra Sangeet'' ( bn, রবীন্দ্র সঙ্গীত; ), also known as Tagore Songs, are songs from the Indian subcontinent written and composed by the Bengali polymath Rabindranath Tagore, winner of the 1913 Nobel Prize in Li ...

singer. She had 14 solo musical albums released from India and 10 musical albums released in Bangladesh. She was awarded

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by the

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in 2020 for her contributions to music.

Career

Haque's mentors were Sanjida Khatun and her paternal uncle Waheedul Haq. At the age of eleven, she participated at the International Children's Festival in

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. Later in 1976 she started taking formal music lessons from

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player Mohammad Hossain Khan. Haque used to run a music school ''Surtirtha''. She also served as the head of the Rabindra Sangeet Department at Chhayanaut Sangeet Bidyayatan in Dhaka. Haque also served as a lecturer at Chhayanaut Sangeet Vidyayatan in

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Personal life

Haque was married to actor-director

Khaled Khan Khaled Khan (9 February 1958 – 20 December 2013) was a Bangladeshi actor. He posthumous won the Ekushey Padak in 2022 for his contribution to the field of acting. He was often referred to as ''Juboraj'' by the contemporary theater personalities ...

(d. 2013).

Death

Haque died on 11 April 2021 after contracting COVID-19 during the

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* 1962 births 2021 deaths People from Dhaka 20th-century Bangladeshi women singers 20th-century Bangladeshi singers Rabindra Sangeet exponents Recipients of the Ekushey Padak in arts 20th-century women composers 21st-century Bangladeshi women singers 21st-century Bangladeshi singers Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh {{Bangladesh-singer-stub