Sandhya Mukherjee

                                      Present – 1931 

                                  Hindi, Bengali , Urdu

             Sandhya mukhopadhyay shondha mukhopaddhae) (b. 1931) is associate indian singer and musician, specialising in bengali music. she was born in city, india. she is additionally referred to as sandhya mukherjee. she was terribly shut friends with the late alpana banerjee. she received banga-vibhushan, the very bestcivilian honour in west bengal in 2011.

 Life

        In 1966, she married author shyamal gupta and settled along with her husband in urban center.

Career

               Sandhya started her music coaching below the direction of pandit santosh kumar basu, academic a t kannan and academic chinmoy lahiri. however, her guru was ustad west chadic ghulam ali khan and followed by his son ustad munavvar ali khan below whom she perfect indian musical style.

               Though classically trained, the majority of her work consists of bengali trendy songs. she began her career in mumbai singing hindi songs, beginning with a song within the film anjan garh at the age of seventeen. following her wedding to the bengali writer shyamal gupta she settled in her home town of calcutta. gupta went on to jot down the lyrics for several of her songs.

               Her best acknowledged collaboration is arguably with the bengali singer hemanta mukherjee with whom she american ginseng various duets, primarily as playback for bengali films created from city. hemanta and sandhya became referred to as the voices behind the pairings of the bengali wizard uttam kumar and his various heroines, most notably being the thespian suchitra fractional monetary unit, whose voice she became. besides hemanta mukherjee's compositions, her largest body of labor is with robin chattopadhyay and nachiketa ghosh. she has conjointly sung notable songs underneath salil chowdhury and sudhin dasgupta's baton.
                   During the east pakistan liberation war she joined the mass movement among indian bengali artistes to lift cash for the several refugees who had poured into metropolis and state to flee the fighting, and to lift international awareness for the explanation for east pakistan. she power-assisted bangladeshi musician samar das as heestablished the swadh in bangla betar kendra, the underground station broadcasting to east pakistan and recorded many ultranationalistic songs for him. on the occasion of the discharge of arab chief mujibur rahman, the jailed leader of the new country of east pakistan, she free a song bang abandhu tumi phirey ele. she later became one amongst the primary foreign artistes to go to capital of bangladesh, working at associate out-of-door concert in paltan maidan in capital of bangladesh to celebrate the primary ekushey february when bangladeshi independence in 1971. she conjointly recorded many songs for samar das's film dhirey bohey meghna and salil chowdhury's raktakta bangla.

   

            She is an establishment in bengal and features a large following among the young and therefore the previous in each india and east pakistan.

Contribution To Hindi Films

1948 : Ab nahi dharat dheer dheer 
1948 : Aayee mere jeevan ki saanjh suhani 

1948 : Dil bhi udaas udaas chaman bhi udaas

1950 : Taaron ki roshni me duniya nai..(with apresh lahiri)

1950 : Ham chale nai duniya basaane..(with apresh lahiri)

1950 : Ashkon me chhipi mohabbat ki kahani

1950 : Kaun kehta hai tasveer tumhari
1951: Aa gupchup gupchup pyar karen..(with hemant kumar) 

1951 : Ye baat koi samjhaye re

1951 : Bol papihe bol kaun hai tera chitchor..(with lata mangeshkar)
1952 : Ishq me ho jao barbaad..(with g m durrani) 

1952 : Kya kya sitam sahe hain do din ki zindagi me

1952 : Tera jhoomta shabaab jaise..(with g m durrani)

1953 : Jungle mangal
1953 : Aa jaa re balam tujhe meri kasam 

1953: Udaasiyon me nazar kho gai
1953 :Dheere dheere dil me samaa..(with s d gupta) 

1953 : Dil lagaane wale apne se hazaaron hain..(with mohd. rafi)

1953 : O jaane waale kisi ka salaam leta jaa

1953 : O sangdil zamaane mujkhe kyun rulaata hai
1954 : Aayee basant ritu aayee bahaar leke

1954 : Doob gaye sab aas ke taare 

1954 : Rut hai suhaani raat jawan hai..(with hemant kumar)

1954 : Sukh bhari duniya meri barbaad jo

1956 : Maine jo lee angrayee teri mehfil

1973: Tose naina laage re saanwariya

1973 :Beet jayegi umariya ya fir na milegi