Runa Laila Biography

Runa Laila is a famous Bangladeshi singer.

In Bangladesh, she is widely known as the 'Queen of Songs', 

Queen of Tunes' and 'Goddess of Tunes'.

She is famous for her film, pop, modern and classical music

in Bangladesh.

However, outside Bangladesh, she has a good reputation

as a ghazal artist in other South Asian countries.

She started working as a film singer before Bangladesh

became independent.

Apart from Bangladesh, she has given voice to many songs in 

Indian and Pakistani films.

Runa Laila has sung more than 13,000 songs in a total of 18 

languages, including Bengali, Urdu, Punjabi, Hindi, Sindhi, 

Gujarati, Balochi, Pashto, Persian, Arabic, Malay, Nepali,

Japanese, Spanish, French, Latin and English.

Her song Damadam Mast Qalandar is very popular in India

and Pakistan. She has learned folk music from Dinendra 

Chowdhury, a long-time famous folk singer.