Kanika Banerjee

About

Indian Rabindra Sangeet singer who recorded over 300 gramophone discs and was a regular performer on the All India Radio station.

Before Fame

She toured all over India while performing in dance dramas.

Trivia

Her death was so widely mourned that the Indian Prime Minister himself gave a condolence speech in her honor.

Family Life

She married Birendra Chandra Bandypadhyay, poet and librarian of Viswa Bharati University, in 1945.

Associated With

She took music lessons from the great Rabindranath Tagore.