The Most Famous

SINGERS from Bangladesh

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This page contains a list of the greatest Bangladeshi Singers. The pantheon dataset contains 4,381 Singers, 1 of which were born in Bangladesh. This makes Bangladesh the birth place of the 118th most number of Singers behind Bermuda, and Republic of the Congo.

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The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Bangladeshi Singers of all time. This list of famous Bangladeshi Singers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

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1. Runa Laila (b. 1952)

With an HPI of 42.91, Runa Laila is the most famous Bangladeshi Singer.  Her biography has been translated into 17 different languages on wikipedia.

Runa Laila (born 17 November 1952) is a Bangladeshi playback singer and composer. She started her career in the Pakistani film industry in the late 1960s. Her style of singing is inspired by Pakistani playback singer Ahmed Rushdi and also frequently joined him for singing duets, after replacing another singer Mala. Her playback singing in films – The Rain (1976), Jadur Banshi (1977), Accident (1989), Ontore Ontore (1994), Devdas (2013) and Priya Tumi Shukhi Hou (2014) - earned her seven Bangladesh National Film Awards for Best Female Playback Singer. She won the Best Music Composer award for the film Ekti Cinemar Golpo (2018).

People

Pantheon has 1 people classified as Bangladeshi singers born between 1952 and 1952. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Bangladeshi singers include Runa Laila.

Living Bangladeshi Singers

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