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| Sabina Yasmin |
Sabina
Yasmin is a Bangladeshi vocalist. She is best known as a playback artist in
Bengali silver screen. She has won Bangladesh National Film Award for Best
Female Playback Singer a record 12 times. She has recorded more than 1,500
melodies for films and more than 10,000 tunes altogether. Yasmin was granted
Ekushey Padak in 1984 and Independence Day Award in 1996 by the Government of
Bangladesh. Yasmin was conceived in 1953 to Mouluda Khatun. The main melody
that Yasmin learned with the family unit harmonium was Khokon Moni Shona. In
1964, she sang routinely in Khela Ghar, a radio program. P.C. Gomez was her
established music guide. Performer Altaf Mahmud came to know her performing
voice while going to her neighbor's home. She made her introduction in playback
singing through the melody Modhu Jochnar Dipali for the movie Agun Niye Khela
(1967), coordinated by Zahir Raihan. As youngster specialists, she and Shahnaz
Rahmatullah won honors from President Ayub Khan. Yasmin
got her first leap forward through the melody titled Shudhu Gaan Geye Porichoy.
She at that point began working under Altaf Mahmud in films including Anowara',
'Nayantara' and 'Taka Ana Pai'. She bit by bit performed alongside Satya Saha,
Subal Das, Khan Ataur Rahman, Ali Hossain, Alauddin Ali, Ahmed Imtiaz Bulbul
and Gazi Mazharul Anwar.
Yasmin
has sung for films, radio, TV and gramophone organizations. She has been
dynamic in the Bangladeshi music industry since the 1970s. At the point when
Yasmin entered the film business, her co-eval Shahnaz Rahmatullah was the main
artist. In 1970, the film Jibon Theke Neya was discharged. It contained the
tune "Eki Sonar Aloy" which lifted Yasmin as the main artist. She
sang some energetic tunes "Cry Kota Janala","Swajan Harano Diner
Samarane","Sei Railliner Dhare","Swadhinata Tumi" and
so forth.
She
earned distinction with the tune "Sudhu Gaan Geye Porichoy" in 1972
film 'Abujh Mon'. She sang "Tumi Je Amar Kobita","Tumi
Achho" and so on two part harmonies with Mahmudunnabi. She got the primary
Bangladesh National Film Award for Best Female Playback Singer in 1975 for her
melodies in Sujon Sokhi. She got three sequential National film grants: in 1978
for Golapi Ekhon Train E; in 1979 for Sundari; and in 1980 for Kosai.
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Veterans,
for example, Ferdausi Rahman, Shahnaz Rahmatullah left playback singing. She
sang various immortal hits for Yasmin including "Koto Sadhonay Emon Bhagyo
Mele", "Shoto Jonomer Sadh", "E Jibone Tumi Ogo Ele"
and some more. Her rising prevalence dragged her to Indian film. In 1985, she
sang "Cherona G Haat" and "Jalpari" with Kishore Kumar in
the Indo-Bangladesh joint generation Anyay Abichar which had music by R. D.
Burman. Yasmin
earned National Awards in 1991 for Danga and 1992 for Radha Krishna. In 1994,
Kanak Chapa went to the music scene with the film Tomakei Chai. Yasmin sang
numerous melodies in the 1990s. By
the year 2000, Kanak Chapa was at that point most looked for after playback
vocalist. However Yasmin got the opportunity to sing various hit tunes created
by choice music chiefs. She accomplished National Film Award for her
interpretation of Tagore melody "Boroshar Prothom Dine" in Dui Duari
(2000). In 2004, her melody "Preme Poreche Mon" in 'wrong number'
beat the music top outlines. She accomplished her twelfth and last National
Film Award for 'Dui Noyoner Alo'. Yasmin
sang a few hits in the 2010s moreover. She sang a two part harmony with the
champ of Channel I Sera Kontho, Imran. In these years she sang for new age of
on-screen characters like Apu Biswas, Sahara, Racy and so on. Her melody
"Premiker Buk Jeno Sukher Nodi" highlighted in top outlines for a
long time. Yasmin
imparted an awesome on-screen contention to Runa Laila. Yasmin was the main
artist of Bangladesh from 1970 till 1974. In 1974, Runa ventured into Bengali
silver screen singing the well known "Ganeri Khatay Swarolipi Likhe"
in Swarolipi film. From the primary days, Runa gave Yasmin firm rivalry.
Additionally, she had an edge over Yasmin; she was a famous artist in India and
furthermore Pakistan. Runa recorded a heaps of hit tracks in the 1980s. In
spite of the fact that she challenged well with Yasmin, Sabina got away from
her lead position till 1993. They sang a considerable measure of female two
part harmonies together, for instance, "Tumi Boro Bhagyoboti" in the
film Pratinidhi. Yasmin had an extraordinary blending with Syed Abdul Hadi,
Mahmudunnabi and Khurshid Alam while Runa worked together with Subir Nandi and
Andrew Kishore. Yasmin gathered 9 National film grants in the 1980s, while Runa
got 4 National film grants.
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Yasmin
has three sisters — Farida Yasmin, Fauzia Yasmin and Nilufar Yasmin. Her dad,
Lutfar Rahman, worked in Provincial Civil Service of British India and her mom
Begum Mouluda Khatun was a vocal craftsman who took lessons from the artist
Ustaad Kader Baksh. Sabina is the close relative of Agun (child of Khan Ataur
Rahman and Nilufar Yasmin), an artist and Reenat Fauzia, a sitar player. Yasmin
has hitched three times. She has a girl, Fairooz Yasmin, an artist, from her
first marriage with Anisur Rahman, and a child, Srabon, from her second
marriage with Amir Hossain. She met Kabir Sumon, and Indian-Bengali artist and
political lobbyist, in 1998 and later the couple got hitched. In July 2007,
Yasmin was determined to have Non-Hodgkin lymphoma.