Banani Ghosh (died 7 June 2023) was an Indian Bengali musician, primarily known as an exponent of

Rabindra Sangeet ''Rabindra Sangeet'' (; ), also known as Tagore Songs, are songs from the Indian subcontinent written and composed by the Bengalis, Bengali polymath Rabindranath Tagore, winner of the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature, the first Indian and also the ...

, but also specializing in the music of Atulprasad Sen, Rajanikanta Sen and others.

Biography

Ghosh was born in

Mymensingh Mymensingh () is a metropolis, metropolitan city and capital of Mymensingh Division, Bangladesh. Located on the bank of the Old Brahmaputra River, Brahmaputra River, about north of the national capital Dhaka, it is a major financial center ...

in present-day Bangladesh, her father Prafulla Krishna Ghose was also a musician and poet, and editor of a children's magazine. She was trained in

Hindustani classical music Hindustani classical music is the Indian classical music, classical music of the Indian subcontinent's northern regions. It may also be called North Indian classical music or ''Uttar Bhartiya shastriya sangeet''. The term ''shastriya sangeet'' ...

and at

Shantiniketan Shantiniketan (IPA: �antiniketɔn 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 ...

with the noted Rabindra Sangeet exponent Kanika Banerjee. Her voice was so similar to her gurus that to some she is known as (the second "mohar", after the Kanika's popular moniker). With a formal degree in music from

Rabindra Bharati University Rabindra Bharati University is a public research university in Kolkata, India. It was founded on 8 May 1962, under the Rabindra Bharati Act of the Government of West Bengal in 1961, to mark the birth centenary of the poet Rabindranath Tagore. I ...

, she also trained with Dilip Kumar Roy of Pondicherry. Bursting into the Rabindrasangeet scene in the 1970s, she quickly rose to become an eminent Rabindra Sangeet artist on

All India Radio All India Radio (AIR), also known as Akashvani (), is India's state-owned public broadcasting, public radio broadcaster. Founded in 1936, it operates under the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (India), Ministry of Information and Broa ...

and

Doordarshan Doordarshan (), abbreviated as DD, is India's State-owned enterprise, state-owned public broadcasting, public television broadcaster. Established by the Government of India on 15 September 1959, it is owned by the Ministry of Information and B ...

. Subsequently, Ghosh lived in Switzerland and in the United States, where she ran ''Antara'', a Rabindrasangeet organization that has trained thousands of pupils across the USA over the years. She also organized the Tagore festival ''Rabindra Mela'', which attempts to familiarize the works of Tagore to an international audience. She also staged a number of dance dramas, ''Shapmochan'' (1962), and ''Bhanushingher Padavali'' (Rochester, 1983) being particularly notable. Ghosh died on 7 June 2023.Celebrated singer Banani Ghosh passes away
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* 20th-century births 2023 deaths Rabindra Bharati University alumni Year of birth missing Bengali musicians Rabindra Sangeet exponents People from Mymensingh District Singers from West Bengal {{Asia-musician-stub