ওয়াশিংটন বাংলা রেডিও Washington Bangla Radio USA

NINA RAHMAN has a wonderful sweet voice as you will hear in the player and sings great Bengali modern as well as Rabindra Sangeet.

Born in Barisal, Bangladesh, Nina now lives in California, USA with her husband Dr. Mizanur Rahman and two beautiful children - one son and one daughter.

Read all about Nina and listen to the full audio songs from her album Taray Taray exclusively on Washington Bangla Radio.

Shashika Mooruth was born and educated in the Republic of South Africa. Till the age of 24 she was untrained yet would sing with ease and skill. In her childhood, she performed in many local concerts around South Africa. At the age of 12 her talent was recognized by the legendary Kishore Kumar who invited her to sing in his concert in Durban, South Africa. Kishore-da labeled her as a singer ‘born in the wrong country’ and advised her father to send her to Bombay to train and become a playback singer! Shashika has also accompanied Shri Mahendra Kapoor and Pandit Hrdayanath Mangeshkar on stage.

A science graduate from University of South Africa, Shashika has also studied Speech and Drama at Trinity College of Music, London and the South African Guild of Speech and Drama Teachers’ Association.

In 1987 she enrolled for the degree course in Hindustani Music at the Bhartiya Vidya Bhavan with the intention of returning to South Africa to teach music, but soon realized the vastness of the music field and hence settled in India permanently.

In 1995, she was honored at the World Hindu Conference in South Africa for her contribution to Indian music.

She has travelled several times to twenty five countries with her devotional music and is always in demand for her  unique presentation style.

Many of her bhajan albums produced by herself are available on the net or her website www.urjamusic.com.

Says Shashika, “I love to experiment with different styles and therefore on the commercial front I have rendered my voice in devotional, pop, filmi, semi-classical and even techno compositions. Last year I decided to dedicate more time to commercial music in Mumbai and hence came my first song in Hindi cinema. I penned and recorded a piece in Western voice for a title song by Adnan Sami for a film titled Ek Second Jo Zindagi Badal De with music by Saawan Kumar Saawan. I hope to make a contribution to the music world in this lifetime.”

Listen to the beautiful voice of Shashika and her sweet Bhajans online using the player at the top, or on WBRi live radio channel.

"Dr. Ghosal's music lessons which began from the age of four continued till he was about 26 yrs of age. During his entire learning years he became a master of Thumri, Kheyal, Bhajan, Ragpradhan, Rabindra Sangeet, Nazrulgeeti, Dwijendrageeti, Rajnikanter Gaan, modern Bengali songs and several other folks songs. He received his music lessons from various esteemed 'Gurus'. Among them was late Sangeetacharya Sukhendu Goswami, the famous music maestro of Bengal. Rabindra Sangeet from the legendary Debobrata Biswas and learnt different Bengali songs from Manindra Chakraborty." - read more about Dr Anup Ghoshal at his official web-site.

Listen to free samples and download Anup Ghoshal's superhit Bengali songs online.

May 30, 2010 (Washington Bangla Radio) King  Jr, who is signed to Amico Productions London (APL), has released a new single “BOOM BOOM BOOM SOCCER MUSIC”.

There are three versions of the single - Boom Boom Boom Soccer Music, Boom Boom Boom Soccer Music “Zamina African Edit” and Boom Boom Boom Soccer Music “House Remix”.

King Jr has graciously share his World Cup Soccer 2010 official single with Washington Bangla Radio's listeners - listen to the three versions online.

Download the Boom Boom Boom Soccer Music MP3 songs by King JR online from Amazon.com - click here »

River Songs Of Bangladesh is a collection of beautiful folk songs of Bengal sung by the boatmen. The album lifts the spirit and has therapeutic value, at least based on what Leroy writes in his review of the CD, "I got this CD as a present and it looked like an ordinary CD when I opened it. but when I put it in my CD player it transported me on a pleasant journey to Bangladesh, endowed me with millions of Bangladeshi women, and empowered me to get out of my wheelchair and begin dancing. I asked my doctor about it and he said it was normal. I think it might have cured my cancer too but that wasn't at least until I got to song 4."

The 10 beautiful audio songs in this album are:

1. Asharh Maishya
2. Amar Gaye
3. Sagar Kuler Nalya - Chandana Banik
4. Ashar Tori
5. Sob Kichhu Diye Tare
6. Dhalla Nodi
7. Kon Ghate
8. Tista Nodir Pare
9. Sarbanasha Padmanodi
10. Sonar Tori

You can listen to free online samples and download the songs in MP3 format online - click here.