Banashree Sengupta
Banashree Sengupta (; 6 May 1945 – 19 February 2017) was a singer from India. She lent her voice to numerous Bengali, Hindi, Assamese, Bhojpuri, and Odia songs during her long career. Early years Banashree's father Shri Shailendranath Roy () was a noted Indian classical singer of Hugli-Chuchura, West Bengal. She was born to a family of Ayurveda doctors and their house in Chinsurah was known as Kabiraj Bari (doctors' house /). However, her grandfather and father were proficient artists in Indian Classical Music. Her father introduced her to Indian Classical music at an early age. She passed School Final Examination from Banimandir Balika Vidyalaya (). Learning Music Apart from her father, Banashree received training in singing from various masters. Shri Rajen Bandyopadhyay imparted training in Indian classical music while she was at Chinsurah. After her marriage to Sri Shanti Sengupta in 1965, she moved to Kolkata. Here, she received training from several exponents of music in various branches, such as Khayal from Ustad Sagiruddin Khan, Pandit Usharanjan Mukhopadhyay and Pandit Shailen Bandyopadhyay, a folk song from Dinendra Choudhury, Geet and Bhajan from Kamal Ganguly, Najrul Geeti from Ramanuj Dasgupta and adhunik song from Rabindra Jain, Prabir Majumder, Neeta Sen,