Runa Laila

Runa Laila is one of the most popular singers in the subcontinent, and perhaps the only singer who sang in many foreign languages too, She has a huge fan base across the subcontinent for her unique voice. Her mastery over various genres of music in different languages had given her international recognitions. She won many international awards, and she has given playback in Bangladeshi, Indiana and Pakistani movies. 

She was born in Sylhet (Pakistan)  on November 17, 1952  and started her music career in Pakistan. But when Bangladesh was separated from Pakistan, she settled in Bangladesh and presented some evergreen songs. She has received Saigal Award from India and Nigar Awards from Pakistan. She has presented more than 15,000 songs in her career spanning for 25 years. Runa Laila, who was a regular singer of the film industry, has become very selective now. 

She finds today’s songs are very substandard and too commercial. This Bangladeshi singer tried her luck in Bollywood and got her first break in Kalyanji-Anandji’s film, Ek Se Badhkar Ek.  She had sung the title song in this film and became an instant popular singer with this song. 

Later on, she gained much popularity with songs such as ‘O Mera Babu Chail Cahbila” and ‘Damadum Mast Kalandar’. She is a fan of many Indian playback singers such as Kishore Kumar Kishore Kumar is an Indian playback singer, who ha >> Read More... , Lata Mangeshkar Lata Mangeshkar, the veteran playback singer, had >> Read More... , Mohammed Rafi Mohammed Rafi is a renowned Indian playback singer >> Read More... , Manna Dey Manna Dey is one of the greatest Indian classical >> Read More... , Yesu Das, Asha Bhonsle, Mukesh, etc. She was noticed first by music composer Jaidev who gave her break in film ‘Gharonda’. 

This film Gharonda provided some wonderful music by Jaidev. Female playback singing was done by Runa Laila, and her voice was a refreshing change from the usual voices that people got used to then. In this film ,she sang a duet with and even solo songs. Later Runa Laila. In 1974, she recorded a song named ‘Sadher Lau ‘ which was popular in Kolkata and even in Bangladesh. In 2009, she released her Punjabi wedding songs album and became more popular. 

In 2012, she appeared as a judge for a musical show’ Sur Kshetra Sur Kshetra was a music battle between the singers >> Read More... ’ where she shared judge chair with another legendary singer Asha Bhosle Asha is considered to be the second greatest femal >> Read More... . In 2015, she completed 5-decades of her musical journey. This playback singer started singing at a young age of 12, she got her first break in Pakistani film ‘ Jugnu Jugnoo is the 2015 Pakistani Urdu-language romanti >> Read More... ’ and become a prominent voice in Pakistan. She also appeared in TV shows in Pakistan and was doing playback singing in the movies as well.