Rajeshwari Dutta

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{{Infobox musical artist

|birth_name= Rajeshwari Vasudev

|native_name =ਰਾਜੇਸ਼ਵਰੀ ਵਾਸੁਦੇਵ

|birth_date =17 April 1918

|birth_place =Lahore, Punjab Province, British India

|death_date =10 April 1976 (Age 57)

|death_place =Calcutta, West Bengal, India

|occupation =Vocalist, exponents

|background =Visva-bharati University

|spouse =Sudhindranath Dutta (m.1943; died 1960)

|genre =Rabindra Sangeet

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Rajeshwari Dutta born as Rajeshwari Vasudev (17 July 1918 - 10 April 1976) was an Indian singer, considered one of the best-known exponents of the songs of Rabindranath Tagore.{{cite book|author=Rabindranath Tagore|title=The Visva-bharati Quarterly|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DUwZAAAAIAAJ|year=1976|publisher=Visva-bharati|page=12}} {{Citation|title=Rabindra Sangeet - Top 20 Rajeswari Dutta Songs {{!}} Rabindranath Tagore Love Songs|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiuGFqx8E_A|language=en|access-date=2019-09-23}}{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2019}}

She was amongst the few singers to earn appreciation from Rabindranath Tagore. She was among the singers of Rabindrasangeet, a group of the earliest singers of Tagore songs from families directly connected to Tagore and including Sahana Devi, Amiya Tagore, and Malati Ghoshal.

Rajeshwari Vasudev was married to noted poet Sudhindranath Datta{{cite book|author1=Rabindranath Tagore|title=Selected Letters of Rabindranath Tagore|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v08xxlHuWtUC&pg=PA376 |date=1997 |publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-59018-1|page=376}} (footnote 1) after she received her musical training at Santiniketan. She was affiliated with music institutions in UK and the US in 1960s.{{cite news|title=1964 Michaels Music Award Increased to $1,500 |date=12 January 1964|work=Chicago Tribune|page=5}} The rich classical base of her voice flowed seamlessly in Tagore songs and was particularly effective in portraying the moods.

Among her early recordings, the best ones are Ogo shono ke bajay and Aji tomay abar chai shunabare. Her recordings were made starting 1938 by Hindusthan Musical Products company of Calcutta,{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/west-bengal/lonely-shepherd/cid/1265627 | title=Lonely shepherd| date=3 May 2009| first=Soumitra | last=Das | newspaper=The Telegraph | location=India | accessdate=31 January 2019 }} which emerged along with two others in 1932 out of the spirit of nationalism to compete with His Master's Voice. All through her life, recordings were made exclusively by this company.