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| native_name = বনানী ঘোষ
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| instrument = vocal
| genre = [[Rabindra Sangeet]]
| occupation = Singer
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'''Banani Ghosh''', is a [[Bengali language|Bengali]] ([[India]]n) musician,
primary known as an exponent of [[Rabindra Sangeet]], but also specializing
in the music of [[Atulprasad Sen]], [[Rajanikanta Sen]] and others.

She was born in [[Mymensingh]] in present-day [[Bangladesh]], her father
Prafulla Krishna Ghose was also a musician and poet, and editor of a
children's magazine.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.rhymerecords.com/BananiGhosh.aspx |title=Archived copy |access-date=11 October 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080517101310/http://www.rhymerecords.com/BananiGhosh.aspx |archive-date=17 May 2008 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}</ref> Banani was trained in [[Hindustani classical music]]
and at [[Shantiniketan]] with the noted Rabindra Sangeet exponent [[Kanika Banerjee]]. Her voice was so similar to her gurus that to some she is known
as {{transl|hi|nakal mohar}} (the second "mohar", after the Kanika's popular moniker).
With a formal degree in music from [[Rabindra Bharati University]], she also
trained with [[Dilip Kumar Roy]] of Pondicherry. Bursting into the
Rabindrasangeet scene in the 1970s, she quickly rose to become an eminent Rabindra Sangeet artist on [[All India Radio]] and [[Doordarshan]].

Subsequently, she has lived in [[Switzerland]] and in the [[United States]], where
she runs ''Antara'', a Rabindrasangeet organization which has trained
thousands of pupils across the USA over the years. She has also organized the
Tagore festival ''Rabindra Mela'', which attempts to familiarize the works of
Tagore to an international audience. She has also staged a number of dance
dramas, ''Shapmochan'' (1962), and ''Bhanushingher Padavali'' (Rochester, 1983)
being particularly notable.

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