Iman Chakraborty (born 13 September 1988) is an Indian singer and actress. Chakraborty won the National Film Award for Best Female Playback Singer and Filmfare Award Bangla For Best Female Playback Singer in the year 2017 for her Bengali song "Tumi Jaake Bhalobasho" from the film '' Praktan''. She is the recipient a National Film Award for Best Female Playback Singer and two Filmfare Award Bangla For Best Female Playback Singer. Accordingly, She is one of the few singers who have won a national award for the debut film song in India.

Early life and career

Iman was born in the town Liluah of the

Howrah Howrah (; ; alternatively spelled as Haora) is a city in the Indian States and union territories of India, state of West Bengal. Howrah is located on the western bank of the Hooghly River, opposite to its twin city of Kolkata. Administratively ...

district of the

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state of India. During her growing up days she learnt music from her late mother Trishna Chakraborty and got inclined towards literary works of

Rabindranath Tagore Rabindranath Thakur (; anglicised as Rabindranath Tagore ; 7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941) was a Bengalis, Bengali polymath who worked as a poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer, and painter of the Bengal Renai ...

. Her first break came when she approached Indian record label company Saregama, which decided to produce her first album 'Bosh te dio kachhe' in Bengali language. The album consisted of renditions of a few songs by Tagore. The album caught the eyes of composer Anupam Roy, who wanted to experiment with a fresh voice, with new vocal and tonal qualities, for his composition. She subsequently sang Roy's Bengali film song composition "Tumi Jaake Bhalobasho" which was her debut film song. The song earned her the National Film Award for Best Female Playback Singer. In December 2018, she released the song "Monn", the title song of the Tollywood album ''Monn.'' It was a duet with singer Sarbajit Ghosh, who is also the music director, composer, lyricist and producer of the song.

Musical influences

Chakraborty is heavily inspired by

Awards and nominations

Academy Awards

National Film Awards

Filmfare Awards East

Filmography

Films

Web series

References

Notes

External links

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