Sniti Mishra is an Indian singer. She is a trained vocalist in Hindustani classical music who appeared for the first time in

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musical reality show, ''

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''. She had been associated with Indo-Swedish Fusion jazz band

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. She has also worked with the percussionist

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and

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musician-keyboardist

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Samman' for the year 2016 by Utkala Cultural Association, IIT Bombay.Sniti has her formal education in Economics and pursued her MBA. During her musical tour to USA, she was invited to judge the Chicago Indian Icon and in September 2013, she was chosen as a Good Will Ambassador for a global charity Combat Blindness International. Mishra has lent her voice for the Bollywood movie Babloo Happy Hai directed by

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. Also she has lent her voice for a

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'' under the music composition of

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. Mishra has earned fame and became a household name in Kashmir for singing many Kashmiri songs. Her latest kashmiri folk song " Harmukh Bartal" is taken by the popular webseries

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Early life

Sniti Mishra was born and raised in

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, a district in the western part of

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, into an

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Brahmin family. She is the younger of two children. Mishra received her Hindustani Classical training from Guru Shri Raghunath Sahoo, a disciple of Dr. Damodar Hota of the Gwalior Gharana, and studied music (Visharad) at Gandharv Music University, Mumbai. She also studied for a master's degree in Business Administration in Finance and Control (FC) from the Institute of Management and Information Science, Bhubaneswar, graduating in 2012.

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