1. Sabina Yasmin is best known as a playback singer in Bengali cinema.
21 Facts About Sabina Yasmin
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Sabina Yasmin has won the Bangladesh National Film Award for Best Female Playback Singer a record 14 times.
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Sabina Yasmin has recorded more than 1,500 songs for films and more than 10,000 songs in total.
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Sabina Yasmin's father, Lutfar Rahman, worked in the Provincial Civil Service of British Raj, and her mother, Begum Mouluda Khatun, was a vocal artist who took lessons from the musician Ustaad Kader Baksh.
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The first song that Sabina Yasmin learned with the household harmonium was Khokon Moni Shona.
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Sabina Yasmin made her debut in playback singing through the song Modhu Jochnar Dipali for the film Agun Niye Khela, directed by Zahir Raihan.
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Sabina Yasmin got her first breakthrough through the song titled Shudhu Gaan Geye Porichoy.
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Sabina Yasmin then started working under Altaf Mahmud in films including Anowara, Nayantara and Taka Ana Pai.
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Sabina Yasmin gradually performed along with Satya Saha, Subal Das, Khan Ataur Rahman, Alauddin Ali, Ahmed Imtiaz Bulbul and Gazi Mazharul Anwar.
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Sabina Yasmin has sung for films, radio, television and gramophone companies.
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Sabina Yasmin started her career in the Pakistan film industry and gained recognition when she sang a duet with Ahmed Rushdi Baharon ki yeh shaam for film Anari.
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When Sabina Yasmin entered the film industry, her co-eval Shahnaz Rahmatullah was the number one singer.
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Sabina Yasmin garnered fame with the song "Sudhu Gaan Geye Porichoy" in the 1972 film 'Abujh Mon'.
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Sabina Yasmin received the first Bangladesh National Film Award for Best Female Playback Singer in 1975 for her songs in Sujon Sokhi.
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Sabina Yasmin received three consecutive National film awards: in 1978 for Golapi Ekhon Train E; in 1979 for Sundari; and in 1980 for Kosai.
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Sabina Yasmin earned National Awards in 1991 for Danga and 1992 for Radha Krishna.
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Yet Sabina Yasmin got to sing numerous hit songs composed by top-notch music directors.
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Sabina Yasmin achieved a National Film Award for her rendition of "Boroshar Prothom Dine" in Dui Duari.
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Sabina Yasmin achieved her 12th and last National Film Award for 'Dui Noyoner Alo'.
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Sabina Yasmin sang a duet with the winner of Channel-I Sera Kontho, Imran.
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Sabina Yasmin has a daughter, Fairooz Yasmin, a singer, from her first marriage with Anisur Rahman, and a son, Srabon, from her second marriage with Amir Hossain.