Ruma Guha Thakurta (1934-2019) *84

Ruma Guha Thakurta was an Indian Bengali actress and singer. She founded Calcutta Youth Choir in 1958. She was the daughter of Satyen Ghosh (Monty Ghosh) and her mother was singer Sati Devi. Her family was culturally inclined to Brahmo Samaj, a societal component of Brahmoism and her mother, Sati Ghosh, was a trained vocalist, and elder sister to Bijoya Ray, wife of Satyajit Ray. She began her girlhood as a dancer though her mother and all aunts were exceptionally good vocal artists. Later she went to Almora Academy of Uday Shakar at Lahore to start her career as a dancer. She also started her early training in music in a school named Swarabitan in Kolkata established by her parents. In the later years she took training under Abdul Rehman Khan of Patiala gharana, the ustad of Nirmla Devi and Lakshmi Shankar in Bombay. She was married to Kishore Kumar in 1951 and had a son Amit Kumar by this marriage. The couple got divorced in 1958 and she married Arup Guha Thakurta in 1960. She married Arup Guhathakurta and the couple had two children, Ayan and Sramana who is also a singer.

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