# Sahana Bajpaie

Sahana Bajpaie (born 6 February) is an Indian singer-songwriter and a contemporary Rabindra Sangeet vocalist in Bengali. Born in Siliguri and brought up in Santiniketan, Sahana started singing by the age of three. She released her debut album Notun Kore Pabo Bole in 2007 from Dhaka, Bangladesh, which was a collection of Rabindra Sangeet. Her second album Shikawr released in 2014 with several musicians from West Bengal. Sahana's second Rabindra Sangeet album Ja Bolo Tai Bolo was released in 2015 and the latest solo album, Mon Bandhibi Kemone in 2016.
In 2012, she made her first playback in the Indian Bengali fantasy film Tasher Desh directed by Q. Alongside Shayan Chowdhury Arnob, she has written several songs.

## Music career
### Rabindra Sangeet

Since her music career Bajpaie released two Rabindra Sangeet albums. Notun Kore Pabo Bole was her debut album which was released on 6 March 2007, from Bengal Music Company, Dhaka. The album contained representation and arrangement of Tagore-songs.
Bajpaie's second solo album, Ja Bolo Tai Bolo, was released in September 2015. It is a collection of twelve Rabindra Sangeet recorded in London and Kolkata. Guitarist Oliver Weeks, pianist Zoe Rahman, and her brother, wind instrumentalist Idris Rahman, arranged three of the songs.

### Later years

Her third solo album Mon Bandhibi Kemone released in 2016, was a collection of folk songs of Bengal, which Bajpaie and her associates had collected and arranged them in a contemporary format. Music arrangement of this album was done by Samantak Sinha and Satyaki Banerjee.

## Playback

In 2012, she made her first playback in the Indian Bengali fantasy film Tasher Desh. In 2013, Bengali comedy film Hawa Bodol which was directed by Parambrata Chattopadhyay. In 2016, she made a playback for the Bengali film Under Construction, and sang for Family Album by Mainak Bhaumik, which was a tune by Anupam Roy. In 2018, she sang for two films Ek Je Chhilo Raja, a film by Srijit Mukherjee and Rainbow Jelly, by Soukarya Ghosal. More recently, in the Shiboprasad and Nandita directed, Kontho, she sang the song, Shawbai Chup.

## Personal life

Sahana resides in London, where she serves as a senior teaching fellow in Bengali in the Department of the Languages and Cultures of South Asia at SOAS South Asia Institute. She has been awarded PhD in Music at King's College London.

## Discography
### Studio albums

* Notun Kore Pabo Bole (2007)
* Shikawr (2014)
* Ja Bolo Tai Bolo (2015)
* Mon Bandhibi Kemone (2016)

### Playback

| Year | Title | Film | Note |
| 2012 | "Bolo Shokhi Bolo" | Tasher Desh | |
| 2013 | "Mor Bhabonare" | Hawa Bodol | Rabindra Sangeet, with Saptarshi Mukherjee |
| 2014 | "Tomay Gaan Shunabo" | Under Construction | Rabindra Sangeet |
| 2014 | "Poush Toder" | Under Construction | Rabindra Sangeet |
| 2015 | "Paralysed" | Family Album | Original Bengali Song with Anupam Roy |
| 2017 | "Meghei Chhilo Thikthikana" | Shororipu | Original Bengali Song |
| 2018 | "Roopkotha" | Rainbow Jelly | Original Bengali Song |
| 2018 | "Maharajo Eki Saje" | Ek Je Chhilo Raja | Rabindra Sangeet |
| 2019 | "Shobai Chup" | Konttho | Original Bengali Song |
| 2022 | "Rong Dhoreche" | Mahananda | Original Bengali Song |
| 2022 | "Amr E Path" | Mahananda | Rabindra Sangeet |
| 2022 | "Baynabilashi" | X=Prem | Original Bengali Song |