Sahana Bajpaie (born 6 February) is an Indian singer-songwriter and a contemporary

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 ...

vocalist in

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. Born in

Santiniketan Santiniketan is a neighbourhood of Bolpur town in the Bolpur subdivision of Birbhum district in West Bengal, India, approximately 152 km north of Kolkata. It was established by Maharshi Devendranath Tagore, and later expanded by his son ...

, by the age of three she started singing. She released her debut album '' Notun Kore Pabo Bole'' in 2007 from

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, which was a collection of Rabindra Sangeet. Her second album '' Shikawr'' released in 2014 with several musicians from

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. Sahana's second Rabindra Sangeet album '' Ja Bolo Tai Bolo'' was released in 2015 and the latest solo album, ''

Mon Bandhibi Kemone ''Mon Bandhibi Kemone'' ( bn, মন বান্ধিবি কেমনে) is the third studio album by Indian singer-songwriter Sahana Bajpaie. It was released on 27 September 2016 by Hindustan Records Inreco from Kolkata, India. This album ...

'' in 2016. In 2012, she made her first playback in the Indian Bengali fantasy film ''

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'' directed by Q. Alongside

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, she has written several songs.

Music career

Rabindra Sangeet

Since her music career Bajpaie released two Rabindra Sangeet albums. '' Notun Kore Pabo Bole'' was her debut album which was released on 6 March 2007, from Bengal Music Company,

. The album contained representation and arrangement of

Tagore Rabindranath Tagore (; bn, রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর; 7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941) was a Bengali polymath who worked as a poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer and painter. He resha ...

-songs. She released her second Rabindra Sangeet album '' Ja Bolo Tai Bolo'' in September, 2015 in India and Bangladesh, which contained a collection of devotional and folk songs of Tagore.

Later years

Her third solo album ''

'' released in 2016, was a collection of folk songs of Bengal, which Bajpaie and her associates had collected and arranged them in a contemporary format. Music arrangement of this album was done by Samantak Sinha and Satyaki Banerjee.

Playback

In 2012, she made her first playback in the Indian Bengali fantasy film ''

''. In 2013,

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'' which was directed by

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. In 2016, she made a playback for the Bengali film ''Under Construction'', and sang for '' Family Album'' by

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, which was a tune by Anupam Roy. In 2018, she sang for two films ''

Ek Je Chhilo Raja ''Ek Je Chhilo Raja'' is an Indian Bengali drama film directed by Srijit Mukherji, under the banner of SVF Entertainment Pvt Ltd, starring Jisshu Sengupta in the titular role of Maharaja Mahendra Kumar Chowdhury as well as the Bhawal sanyasi ...

'', a film by Srijit Mukherjee and ''

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'', by

Soukarya Ghosal Soukarya Ghosal ( bn, সৌকর্য ঘোষাল; born 7 June 1986) is an Indian filmmaker, director, screenwriter, illustrator and music composer. He is widely considered for his work in Rainbow Jelly, a food fantasy film for the child ...

. More recently, in the Shiboprasad and Nandita directed, ''Kontho'', she sang the song, ''Shawbai Chup''.

Personal life

In 2001, Bajpaie married her childhood friend

, a Bengali musician, singer-songwriter and composer from Bangladesh. They got divorced in 2008. She now resides in London, where she serves as a senior teaching fellow in

in the Department of the Languages and Cultures of South Asia at SOAS South Asia Institute. She is however currently, on leave, pursuing her PhD in ethnomusicology at

King's College London King's College London (informally King's or KCL) is a public research university located in London, England. King's was established by royal charter in 1829 under the patronage of King George IV and the Duke of Wellington. In 1836, King's ...

. Later she married Richard Herrett and the couple have a daughter name Rohini Herrett.

Discography

Studio albums

* '' Notun Kore Pabo Bole'' (2007) * '' Shikawr'' (2014) * '' Ja Bolo Tai Bolo'' (2015) * ''

'' (2016)

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References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Bajpaie, Sahana Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century Indian women singers 21st-century Indian singers Living people Bengali singers Bengali Hindus Academics of SOAS University of London Alumni of SOAS University of London People from Birbhum district Singers from West Bengal Women musicians from West Bengal BRAC University people