Sahana Bajpaie

Sahana, awarded at the UK Parliament "The Bengal's Pride Award" 2018 for her contribution to Arts and Culture, was brought up and trained in Rabindrasangeet and Bengali Baul Songs in Santiniketan. She now travels the world singing and collaborating with musicians from different countries, has published five critically acclaimed studio albums and (mostly) chases after her six-year old daughter. She has performed at the Royal Albert Hall, the Royal Festival Hall, Cambridge University, SOAS University of London, The London School of Economics in the United Kingdom, various cities in the US, the Grassi Museum Leipzig, Germany, Sosnowiec Music School, Poland, the River Festival, Padova, Italy, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Zurich, to name a few. She had spent quite a few years in Dhaka, Bangladesh and is now based in London. She teaches Bengali Language and Literature at SOAS, University of London of which she is an alumna and a PhD Scholar in Ethnomusicology at King's College London, University of London. If she had her life to live again, she would not change much.