1. Runa Laila was born on 17 November 1952 and is a Bangladeshi playback singer and composer.
24 Facts About Runa Laila
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Runa Laila started her career in the Pakistani film industry in the late 1960s.
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Runa Laila is one of the most prominent singers in South Asia.
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Runa Laila's father Syed Mohammed Imdad Ali belonged to a Bengali family of Muslim Syeds from Rajshahi.
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Runa Laila was a civil servant posted in various towns such as Sylhet and Karachi.
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Runa Laila's mother, Amina Laila, was a musical artist and came from a Bengali Hindu family based in Upper Assam.
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Runa Laila's maternal uncle, Subir Sen, was a notable Indian playback singer.
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Runa Laila started taking dance lessons of Kathak and Bharatanatyam genre.
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Runa Laila became a fan of singer Ahmed Rushdi whom she considered her guru, and tried to emulate not only his singing style but the way he used to perform on the stage.
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When Runa Laila was 12, she performed as a playback singer for a male child actor in the Urdu language film Jugnu.
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In 1966, Runa Laila made her breakthrough in the Pakistani film industry with the song Unki Nazron Sey Mohabbat Ka Jo Paigham Mila for the Urdu film Hum Dono.
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Runa Laila started appearing on the Zia Mohyuddin Show and later sang songs for films in the 1970s such as the film Umrao Jaan Ada.
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Runa Laila moved to Bangladesh along with her family in 1974.
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Runa Laila started in Bollywood with director Jaidev, whom she met in Delhi, got her the chance to play at the inauguration of Doordarshan.
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Runa Laila first worked with the music composer Kalyanji-Anandji for the title song of a film called Ek Se Badhkar Ek.
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Runa Laila gained popularity in India with the songs O Mera Babu Chail Chabila and Dama Dam Mast Qalandar.
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Runa Laila's name has been written on the Guinness World Records for recording 30 songs within 3 days.
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In October 2009, Runa Laila released Kala Sha Kala, a collection of Punjabi wedding songs, in India.
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In 2012, Runa Laila served as a judge on the show Sur Kshetra, an Indian television contest show for amateur singers.
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Runa Laila described her relationship with fellow judge Asha Bhosle as that of sisters.
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Runa Laila has sung in seventeen languages including her native Bengali, Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi, Sindhi, Gujarati, Pashto, Baluchi, Arabic, Persian, Malay, Nepalese, Japanese, Italian, Spanish, French and English.
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Runa Laila first married Khawaja Javed Kaiser, secondly a Swiss citizen named Ron Daniel and then actor Alamgir.
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Runa Laila is the first Bangladeshi to hold this post.
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Runa Laila visited New Delhi in 2013 on her first trip as the SAARC ambassador.