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Suzana Ansar

Suzana Ansar website : - www.suzanaansar.com

About Me

Suzana Ansar is a British born classically trained Bengali singer from London. She has done television and live work all over the world and is a well known, much loved celebrity on the Bengali music scene. Having been born and brought up in the UK Suzana has maintained a strong connection with her Bengali roots and this comes across in her music. She has performed from the age of 3 winning countless singing competitions and best singer awards. Born for the stage and having had North Indian classical training, she swiftly made her name in the Bengali music scene being a well known and much loved celebrity with Bangladeshis globally.She sings comfortably in music genres ranging from Kheyal, Thumri, Bangla folk, Nazrul Geeti, Kawali, Sufi & Bhajan, as well as in any Asian language. Her main influences derive from Asian, Arabic & Western styles.Her first solo album sees her fuse Bangladeshi music with Western beats, using diverse melodies from the writings of genius rebel poet Kazi Nazrul Islam, Bangla folk and Adhunik as well as self penned songs with ground breaking music never to be heard before on a Bengali album to date. ------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------Suzana Ansar album produced by KHANSAR . More information to follow, watch this space!


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Member Since: 7/27/2006
Band Website: suzanaansar.com
Band Members: -Suzana Ansar (Vocal) -Syed Ansar (Producer, Acoustic & Electric Guitar, Keyboard, Drums, Beats, Programming) -Imran Khan (Producer, Acoustic, Electric & Bass Guitar, Keyboard, Programming) - Yamin Chowdhury SHAGOR (Tabla) -Nick Woolliams (Sound Engineer)



Influences: Ustad Rashid Khan, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Parveen Sultana, Runa Laila, The Beatles, Queen, Madonna, Rick Rubin, Pandit Hariprsad Chaurasia, Abida Parveen, Begum Akhtar, Firoza Begum, HER MOTHER, Pt Haridas Ganguly, Golok Mohon Chowdhury, Kari Amir Uddin and bengali bauls, Kaji Nazrul Islam, Rabindra Nath Tagore, Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan, Mehdi Hasan, Ghulam Ali, Hariharan
Sounds Like:The video below is of a private jamming session featuring nazrul song ' oy jolokey' sung by suzana ansar, who can be seen playing harmonium, accompanied by yamin chowdhury (shagor) on tabla. The song here has been performed the tradional way - very different to the version that can be heard on myspace.This song has been produced in forthcoming album 'Gopone' by Khansar. Also in the video; syed ansar, yamin chowdhury, asif akbar (of oh priya fame)
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