Eminent singers Salma and Sajed Akbar will perform melodious Tagore songs at IGCC today at 6:30pm. The event is open for all and requires no ticket or pass for entry. Indira Gandhi Cultural Centre in association with Asian Paints, IRCON and Marico Bangladesh is organising the event.
Born in Barisal, Salma Akbar studied at Chayyanaut and received her initial training in classical music from Ustad Narayan Chandra Basak and Ustad Azad Rahman. She trained in Rabindra sangeet under legends such as Late Karim Sharafi, Sanjida Khatun, Sadi Mohammad, Rezwana Chowdhury Banna in Bangladesh and under late Konika Bandopadyay, Nilima Sen, Sanghamitra Gupta in India.
She has been a part of several visiting Bangladeshi cultural delegations to India in events such as the 125th Birth Anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore in Kolkata in 1988, Victory Day celebrations of Bangladesh in Kolkata in 1990 and the first International Mother Language Day in the year 2000. In 1996, on the invitation of the Florida North American Bangladesh Association, Mrs. Akbar presented Rabindra sangeet in the US.
Sajed Akbar was born in Chittagong to renowned politician and Muktijoddha parents, Syeda Sajeda Chowdhury and Gholam Akbar Chowdhury. Inspired by his parents, Akbar received initial training in Hindustani Classical Vocal Music from Ustad Fazlul Hoque in 1969. Subsequently, he trained in Rabindra Sangeet under Morhum Atikul Islam at the Bulbul Lalitkala Academy, Abdul Ahaad, Kalim Sharafi, Ajit Roy, Sadi Mohammad etc. He was thereafter appointed as a trainer at the Bulbul Lalitkala Academy.
