Indrani Sen
{{short description|Indian singer}}
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| origin = Kolkata, West Bengal, India
| genre = Adhunik Bengali Songs, Nazrul Sangeet, Rabindra Sangeet
| years_active = 1970–present
| occupation = Singer, songwriter
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Indrani Sen is an Indian singer who is known for her Bengali Nazrul Geeti and Rabindra Sangeet songs.{{Cite news|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tv/news/bengali/series-on-journey-of-popular-faces-hits-the-web/articleshow/63771318.cms|title=Series on journey of popular faces hits the web|last=Sen|first=Debolina|date=15 April 2018|work=Times of India|access-date=10 September 2018}}
Early life
Indrani Sen is the daughter of singer Sumitra Sen, and her younger sister is Srabani Sen.{{Cite news|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/nagpur/Can-never-feel-lonely-with-Rabindra-Sangeet-Sumitra/articleshow/7929779.cms|title=Can never feel lonely with Rabindra Sangeet: Sumitra - Times of India|last=Banerjee|first=Falguni|date=10 April 2011|work=The Times of India|access-date=10 September 2018}} Her earliest singing was done under her mother's guidance; she then attended Bengal Music College at the University of Calcutta, and was later trained by Debabrata Biswas in classical and Purabi Dutta in Nazrul geeti.{{Cite web|url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-222135|title=Songs and poems of Tagore resound at National Museum|last=Alom|first=Zhangir|date=13 February 2012|website=Daily Star|access-date=10 September 2018}}
She is also the head of the department of economics at Women's College,Calcutta in Kolkata.
Her mother, Sumitra Sen died on 3 January 2023 at the age of 89.{{Cite web|url=https://www.timesnownews.com/entertainment-news/legendary-singer-sumitra-sen-passes-away-at-89-article-96697771|date=3 January 2023|title=Legendary Singer Sumitra Sen passes away at the age of 89|work=Times Now}}
Awards & achievements
She won BFJA's Best Female Playback Award- 1993 for the film Shwet Patharer Thala{{Cite news|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/bengali/movies/photo-features/lesser-known-facts-about-rituparna-sengupta/worked-in-a-telefilm-directed-by-hema-malini/photostory/63392530.cms|title=Lesser known facts about Rituparna Sengupta|website=The Times of India|date=29 August 2018 |access-date=10 September 2018}} and BFJA's Best Female Playback Award- 1995 for the film Sandhya Tara.
She is a playback singer for Hindi films, Bengali films and T. V serials, and the recipient of several awards,{{Cite web|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/1050411/asp/ranchi/story_4600080.asp|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180910204313/https://www.telegraphindia.com/1050411/asp/ranchi/story_4600080.asp|url-status=dead|archive-date=10 September 2018|title=Back to the roots|last=Mukherjee|first=Abhijeet|date=11 April 2005|website=The Telegraph|access-date=10 September 2018}} including Banga Bhushan from the Government of West Bengal.{{Cite news|url=https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-otherstates/state-government-to-confer-banga-awards-on-may-20/article6021369.ece|title=State government to confer Banga awards on May 20|date=18 May 2014|work=The Hindu|access-date=10 September 2018|language=en-IN|issn=0971-751X}} Sen performed at the joint India and Bangladesh celebrations marking the 150th anniversary of Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore at the Indira Gandhi Cultural Centre (IGCC), High Commission of India in 2012.
References
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External links
- {{Twitter|Indrani39664132}}
{{Notable singers of Rabindra Sangeet}}
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Category:Indian women classical singers
Category:Performers of Hindu music
Category:Bengal Music College alumni
Category:University of Calcutta alumni
Category:Rabindra Sangeet exponents
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
Category:20th-century Indian women singers
Category:20th-century Indian singers
Category:Women musicians from West Bengal
Category:20th-century Indian women composers
Category:20th-century Indian composers
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