Mita Haque

Mita Haque
Born 1962 (age 5354)
Genres Rabindra Sangeet

Mita Haque (born c. 1962)[1] is a Bangladeshi Rabindra Sangeet singer.[2] She is listed as the Highest Grade artist of the Bangladesh Betar. She has 14 solo musical albums released from India and 10 musical albums released in Bangladesh.[1]

Career

Haque's mentors were Sanjida Khatun and her paternal uncle Waheedul Haq.[3] At age eleven, she participated at the International Children's Festival in Berlin. Later in 1976 she started taking formal music lessons from tabla player Mohammad Hossain Khan.[2]

Personal life

Haque was married to actor-director Khaled Khan (d. 2013).[4] She has a daughter Farhin Khan Joyeeta.

Haque runs a music school Surtirtha.[2] She also served as the head of the Rabindra Sangeet Department at Chhayanaut Sangeet Bidyayatan in Dhaka.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 "Mita Haq performs today at IGCC". The Daily Star. September 12, 2013. Retrieved December 7, 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 "Mita Haque: Tagore's tunes always in mind". The Daily Star. July 10, 2009. Retrieved December 7, 2015.
  3. Novera Deepita (August 13, 2003). "Mita and her melodies". The Daily Star. Retrieved December 7, 2015.
  4. Novera Deepita (March 19, 2004). "Khaled and Mita: a couple that complement each other". The Daily Star. Retrieved December 7, 2015.
  5. Takir Hossain (May 8, 2011). "150th Birth Anniversary of Tagore". The Daily Star. Retrieved December 7, 2015.

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