Sahana Bajpaie

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Sahana Bajpaie
সাহানা বাজপেয়ী
Born
EducationPhD in Music[ citation needed ]
Alma mater
Occupation(s)Singer, music researcher
Years active2000–present
Known for Rabindra Sangeet
ParentShri Bimal Bajpaie Smt. Uma Das Bajpaie[ citation needed ]
Musical career
Origin Santiniketan
Genres
LabelsBengal Music Company, Hindustan Records Inreco
Website sahanabajpaie.com

Sahana Bajpaie (born 6 February) is an Indian singer-songwriter and a contemporary Rabindra Sangeet vocalist in Bengali. [1] Born in Siliguri and brought up in Santiniketan, Sahana started singing by the age of three. She released her debut album Notun Kore Pabo Bole in 2007 from Dhaka, Bangladesh, which was a collection of Rabindra Sangeet. [2] Her second album Shikawr released in 2014 with several musicians from West Bengal. Sahana's second Rabindra Sangeet album Ja Bolo Tai Bolo was released in 2015 [3] and the latest solo album, Mon Bandhibi Kemone in 2016. [4]

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In 2012, she made her first playback in the Indian Bengali fantasy film Tasher Desh directed by Q. Alongside Shayan Chowdhury Arnob, she has written several songs. [5]

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, Dhaka. [2] The album contained representation and arrangement of Tagore-songs.[ citation needed ]

Bajpaie's second solo album, Ja Bolo Tai Bolo, was released in September 2015. It is a collection of twelve Rabindra Sangeet recorded in London and Kolkata. [6] Guitarist Oliver Weeks, pianist Zoe Rahman, and her brother, wind instrumentalist Idris Rahman, arranged three of the songs. [7]

Later years

Her third solo album Mon Bandhibi Kemone 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. [4] Music arrangement of this album was done by Samantak Sinha and Satyaki Banerjee. [8]

Playback

In 2012, she made her first playback in the Indian Bengali fantasy film Tasher Desh .[ citation needed ] In 2013, Bengali comedy film Hawa Bodol which was directed by Parambrata Chattopadhyay.[ citation needed ] In 2016, she made a playback for the Bengali film Under Construction, and sang for Family Album by Mainak Bhaumik, which was a tune by Anupam Roy. In 2018, she sang for two films Ek Je Chhilo Raja , a film by Srijit Mukherjee and Rainbow Jelly , by Soukarya Ghosal.[ citation needed ] More recently, in the Shiboprasad and Nandita directed, Kontho, she sang the song, Shawbai Chup. [9]

Personal life

Sahana resides in London, where she serves as a senior teaching fellow in Bengali in the Department of the Languages and Cultures of South Asia at SOAS South Asia Institute. [10] She has been awarded PhD in Music at King's College London. [11] [ failed verification ]

Discography

Studio albums

Playback

YearTitleFilmNoteRef.
2012"Bolo Shokhi Bolo" Tasher Desh
2013"Mor Bhabonare" Hawa Bodol Rabindra Sangeet, with Saptarshi Mukherjee
2014"Tomay Gaan Shunabo" Under Construction Rabindra Sangeet [2]
"Poush Toder"Under ConstructionRabindra Sangeet [2]
2015"Paralysed"Family AlbumOriginal Bengali Song with Anupam Roy
2017"Meghei Chhilo Thikthikana" Shororipu Original Bengali Song
2018"Roopkotha" Rainbow Jelly Original Bengali Song
"Maharajo Eki Saje" Ek Je Chhilo Raja Rabindra Sangeet
2019"Shobai Chup" Konttho Original Bengali Song
2022"Rong Dhoreche"MahanandaOriginal Bengali Song
"Amr E Path"Rabindra Sangeet
"Baynabilashi"X=PremOriginal Bengali Song

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