Srabani Sen

Srabani Sen, also spelt as Sraboni Sen (Bengali: শ্রাবণী সেন), is a Bengali Indian exponent of Rabindra Sangeet and Bengali songs.

Early life

She was schooled at Patha Bhavan school in Kolkata.^[1] Later she studied geography at the Gokhale Memorial Girls' College, a women's college affiliated with the prestigious University of Calcutta and earned a postgraduate degree from the same university.^[2] She started as a journalist for the Bengali magazine Manorama, before opting for a full-time career in music.^[3]

She is the daughter of noted singer Sumitra Sen, and is the younger sister of another Rabindra Sangeet exponent Indrani Sen.^[4]

Awards

In 2000, she was awarded the B.F.J.A award for the best female playback singer for her soulful rendition of Rabindra Sangeet Amala Dhabala Paaley in director Rituparno Ghosh’s film, Utsab.^[4]

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Notable singers of Rabindra Sangeet

Main Artist	Rabindranath Tagore

Other Artists	Abdul Ahad Aditi Mohsin Amiya Tagore Ashok Taru Bandopadhyay Malati Ghoshal Kanika Banerjee Rezwana Choudhury Bannya Debabrata Biswas Dwijen Mukherjee Kabir Suman Rupankar Bagchi Swagatalakshmi Dasgupta Banani Ghosh Santidev Ghosh Kishore Kumar Asha Bhosle Kavita Krishnamurthy Suchitra Mitra Hemanta Kumar Mukhopadhyay Pankaj Mullick Subinoy Roy Nilima Sen Indrani Sen Indranil Sen Sagar Sen Lopamudra Mitra Srikanto Acharya Srabani Sen Kalim Sharafi Shayan Chowdhury Arnob Shaan Babul Supriyo Pramita Mallick

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