About Artist :
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Pragya is an accomplished classical and semi classical singer, with her melodious voice who can able to traverse the three musical octaves effortlessly. She has been into music since the age of four and has managed to win many awards and accolades for her performances at different occasions since her school days. She has earned her Master?s degree in Fine Arts from "SNDT Women?s University", Mumbai. She has obtained an another master?s degree in the field of "Rabindra Sangeet" from the "Rabindra Bharati University"of Kolkata. Pragya is also a "sangeet visharad" from the "Lucknow Bhatkhande University".
Her knowledge in folk music, Assamese Sattriya music and in Rabindra sangeet is highly commendable and she has rendered them at different places like Assam, Mumbai, Kolkata and Jaipur etc. on different occasions. She has learnt music under the guidance of the "Sangeet Natak Akademi" award winner late Dr Sushila Rani Patel. Besides being a journalist for India's first mainstream film magazine called "Filmindia", her guru late Dr Susheela Rani Patel was the senior desciples of Ustad Allahdiya Khan Saheb, the originator and the pioneer of "Jaipur-Atrauli gharana". In the field of music, she has also had the opportunity to whet her realm of knowledge by Maestros like Pt Somdutt Battu of Sham Chaurasi Gharana and Padma Bhushan Pt Ajoy Chakraborty respectively.
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