Bannya to get lifetime achievement award

Renowned Rabindra Sangeet singer Rezwana Choudhury Bannya will be honoured with lifetime achievement award. The award will be handed out by Television Reporters Unity of Bangladesh’ (TRUB) in recognition of her contribution to the music arena.

The award ceremony will be held on March 20 at the ‘TRUB Music Performance Award 2022’, where Minister of Fisheries and Livestock SM Rezaul Karim will attend the event as the chief guest.

Chairman of the event celebration committee and senior journalist Badal Ahmed, and member secretary Rafiq Muhammad confirmed the news to the media.

Regarding the award, Rezwana Choudhury Bannya said, “Receiving the lifetime achievement award for an artist is undoubtedly a very nice feeling. I am deeply grateful to those, who are associated with this programme, especially those who have blessed me with a lifetime honour. I’m overwhelmed by their love and respect for my singing and for the song. I hope to see you all at the event. Till then everyone stays well, stay healthy.”

Along with the lifetime achievement award, some other awards will be conferred to the artists for excellence in the top music categories of Rabindra Sangeet, Nazrul Sangeet, Modern, Folk and Drama.

Bannya has been trained by the legendary exponent of Rabindra Sangeet, the late Konika Bandopadhyaya, who has given the songs of Tagore a characteristic persona through her soul-stirring and slow-paced renderings. In 1992, she founded Shurer Dhara, a prestigious music school in Dhaka. In order to commemorate the 150th birth anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore, she brought out a complete audio version of the 2,233 songs in Tagore’s Gitobitan, which was titled Sruti Gitobitan. The singer has won numerous awards, including Bangladesh’s highest civilian award, the Independence Day Award (2016).

Earlier Bonnya received Ananda Sangeet Puroshkar for being the best female Rabindra Sangeet artist (2002), Gaane Gaane Gunijon Shongbardhona (2011), Sangeet Samman Puroshkar from the Ministry of Culture, India in 2013, Independence Day Award (2016), Banga Bhushan (2017), Firoza Begum Memorial Gold Medal (2017), Sangeet Maha Samman (2017) by the Government of West Bengal, Doctorate of Arts honoris causa from Asian University for Women (2019) and Lifetime Achievement Award conferred by Oikko.com.bd Channel I (2022).