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Runa Laila (born 17 November 1952)<ref name=happy>Template:Cite news</ref><ref name=Sharma/> is a Bangladeshi playback singer and composer. She started her career in the Pakistani film industry in the late 1960s. Her style of singing is inspired by Pakistani playback singer Ahmed Rushdi and also frequently joined him for singing duets, after replacing another singer Mala.<ref name=Sanskriti/><ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref name="britannica">Template:Cite book</ref> She is one of the most prominent singers in South Asia. She's is known as the "'Queen of melody"' in South Asian music.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Her playback singing in films – The Rain (1976), Jadur Banshi (1977), Accident (1989), Ontore Ontore (1994), Devdas (2013) and Priya Tumi Shukhi Hou (2014) - earned her seven Bangladesh National Film Awards for Best Female Playback Singer.<ref name=happy/> She won the Best Music Composer award for the film Ekti Cinemar Golpo (2018).<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Early lifeEdit

Laila was born on 17 November 1952 in Sylhet, East Bengal, Dominion of Pakistan (present-day Bangladesh). Her father Syed Mohammed Imdad Ali belonged to a Bengali family of Muslim Syeds from Rajshahi. He was a civil servant posted in various towns such as Sylhet and Karachi. Her mother, Amina Laila (Template:Nee), was a musical artist and came from a Bengali Hindu family based in Upper Assam.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Her maternal uncle, Subir Sen, was a notable Indian playback singer. She started taking dance lessons of Kathak and Bharatanatyam genre. In those days, Ahmed Rushdi was the leading film singer who introduced rock n roll, disco and other modern genres to South Asian music. Following Rushdi's success, Christian bands specialising in jazz started performing at various night clubs and hotel lobbies<ref name="CITEREFSocPolHistory">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> in Karachi, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Dhaka and Lahore. Laila became a fan of singer Ahmed Rushdi whom she considered her guru (teacher), and tried to emulate not only his singing style but also the way he used to perform on the stage.<ref name="Sharma"/> She then learned classical music with her elder sister Dina Laila (d. 1976).<ref name=Sharma>Template:Cite magazine</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> While she was a student of Saint Lawrence Convent, she won an inter-school singing competition in Karachi in the then West Pakistan.<ref name=nightingale>Template:Cite news</ref> She, along with her sister, were trained by Ustad Abdul Kader Peyarang and Ustad Habibuddin Ahmed.<ref name=nightingale/> Her cousin, Anjumara Begum, had already been a known singer.<ref name=nightingale/> When Laila was 12, she performed as a playback singer for a male child actor in the Urdu language film Jugnu.<ref name=nightingale/> The song was titled Gudia Si Munni Meri.<ref name=saga>Template:Cite news</ref>

CareerEdit

In 1966, Laila made her breakthrough in the Pakistani film industry with the song Unki Nazron Sey Mohabbat Ka Jo Paigham Mila for the Urdu film Hum Dono.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> She used to perform on PTV.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In PTV, she had a show called Bazm E Laila.<ref name=nightingale/> She started appearing on the Zia Mohyuddin Show (1972–74) and later sang songs for films in the 1970s such as the film Umrao Jaan Ada (1972).

Laila moved to Bangladesh along with her family in 1974.<ref name=nightingale/> Her first Bengali song was O Amar Jibon Shathi for the film Jibon Shathi (1976), composed by Satya Saha.<ref name=nightingale/> Shortly after had her first concert in India in 1974 in Mumbai.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> She started in Bollywood with director Jaidev, whom she met in Delhi, got her the chance to play at the inauguration of Doordarshan.<ref name=Sharma/> She first worked with the music composer Kalyanji-Anandji for the title song of a film called Ek Se Badhkar Ek (1976).<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> She gained popularity in India with the songs O Mera Babu Chail Chabila and Dama Dam Mast Qalandar.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In 1974, she recorded Shaadher Lau in Kolkata.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Laila's name has been written on the Guinness World Records for recording 30 songs within 3 days.<ref name=saga/> In 1982, she won Golden Disk Award as her album Superuna composed by Bappi Lahiri was sold over 1 lakh copies on the first day of its release.<ref name=saga/>

In October 2009, Laila released Kala Sha Kala, a collection of Punjabi wedding songs, in India.<ref>Template:Cite press release</ref> In 2012, Laila served as a judge on the show Sur Kshetra, an Indian television contest show for amateur singers.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> She described her relationship with fellow judge Asha Bhosle as that of sisters.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In 2014, she collaborated with Sabina Yasmin on a song for a television play "Dalchhut Projapoti", the first time they worked on a song together.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Laila has sung in seventeen languages including her native Bengali, Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi, Sindhi, Gujarati, Pashto, Baluchi, Arabic, Persian, Malay, Nepalese, Japanese, Italian, Spanish, French and English.<ref name=Sanskriti>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Personal lifeEdit

Laila has been married three times. She first married Khawaja Javed Kaiser, secondly a Swiss citizen named Ron Daniel and then actor Alamgir. She has a daughter Tani.<ref name=Sharma/> Her grandson Zain Islam had been selected for the Arsenal progression center in 2012 when he was eight. Her other grandson Aaron Islam is also there.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

CharityEdit

After her sister died in 1976 from cancer, Laila held several charity concerts in Dhaka. The money raised was used to build a cancer hospital in Dhaka.<ref name=Sharma/><ref name=Sanskriti /> Laila was named a SAARC Goodwill Ambassador for HIV/AIDS.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> She is the first Bangladeshi to hold this post.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> She visited New Delhi in 2013 on her first trip as the SAARC ambassador. She met India's External and Health ministers.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

DiscographyEdit

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  • Sincerely Yours (1973)<ref name=saga/>
  • Runa Laila Sings Songs Of Talib-Ul-Maulla (1974)
  • Great Ghazals - Runa Laila (Style) (1981)
  • Runa in Pakistan (Geet) and (Ghazals) (1980)
  • Bappi Lahiri Presents Runa Laila - Superuna (1982)
  • Runa Goes Disco (1982)
  • Sings For Umrao Jaan Ada (Ghazals) (1985)
  • Ganga Amar Ma Padma Amar Ma (1996)
  • Bazm-E-Laila (2007)
  • Runa Laila-Kala Siah Kala (2010)<ref name=saga/>

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