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Bangladeshi singer

Musical artist

Rezwana Choudhury Bannya is a singer from Bangladesh.

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She is an exponent of Rabindra Sangeet, the songs written and composed by Rabindranath Tagore.^[2] She has won many awards including Bangladesh's highest civilian award, the Independence Day Award ()^[3] and India's fourth highest civilian award, Padma Shri ().^[4]

Early life

Rezwana was born in Rangpur, Bangladesh to her parents Mazharuddin Khan and Ismat Ara Khan.^[5] Her early singing lessons began with her uncle Abdul Ali and continued later under the tutelage of Sanjida Khatun and Atiqul Islam at Chhayanaut and Bulbul Academy of Fine Arts (BAFA) in Dhaka.

As she continued taking lessons in music and singing, she also joined the Economics Program at the university of Dhaka after completion of her schooling.^[6] However, soon her inner self came to the realization that music was her destiny. She received a scholar Rezwana Choudhury Bannya Official - YouTube TUC