Runa Rizvi, also known as Runa Rizvi Sivamani, is an Indian classical and Bollywood

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. She sings

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, folk, Bollywood movies etc.

Early life

Runa Rizvi was born in Bombay to

India India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, seventh-largest country by area; the List of countries by population (United Nations), most populous country since ...

n singers Rajkumar Rizvi and Indrani Rizvi. She graduated from

Mithibai College The Mithibai College of Arts, Chauhan Institute of Science & Amrutben Jivanlal College of Commerce and Economics is a college affiliated to the University of Mumbai offering undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Arts, Science and Commerce. ...

, Mumbai. She belongs to the Kalavant gharana and has been trained in classical, semi-classical and light classical music and can sing Hindi film songs, ghazals,

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, Folk, Punjabi and Sufi Music, as well as Western and Pop music.

Career

She sang for the Rajshri film ''Uff kya jaadu mohabbat hai'' along with

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. She sang a song, ''Jaane tu mera kya hai (Aditi)'', for the movie ''

Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na ''Jaane Tu... Ya Jaane Na'' ( ''Whether You Know Or Not'') is a 2008 Indian Hindi-language Coming-of-age story, coming-of-age romantic comedy film written and directed by Abbas Tyrewala and produced by Mansoor Khan and Aamir Khan under Aamir Kh ...

''. In 2011, Runa has rendered playback for the film ''Provoked'' starring

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. She also worked with Prem Joshua and his band for their album, ''Luminous Secrets''.

Personal life

Rizvi married Sivamani on 10 November 2014 in a private ceremony in

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* * 1979 births Living people Indian Muslims Indian women playback singers Bollywood playback singers 21st-century Indian women singers 21st-century Indian singers {{India-singer-stub