Indira Gandhi Cultural Centre is organising an evening of Rabindra Sangeet with Lily Islam at Sufia Kamal Auditorium, Bangladesh National Museum, Shahbagh, Dhaka at 6:00pm on Saturday.

Lily Islam is one of the leading Rabindra Sangeet singers of Bangladesh. She got her degree in Rabindra Sangeet from Vishwa Bharati University, Shantiniketan. She was trained by legendary Rabindra Sangeet artists Konika Bandopadhyay and Neelima Sen.

She is a leading performer in all TV channels in Bangladesh and India. She is the winner of the ICCR scholarship for her research on ‘Evolution of the Stylisation of Tagore Songs’. She has released three audio cassettes, twelve CDs’ and one VCD of Rabindra Sangeet in her career. She also contributed her voice for the historic CD of compilation of Tagore songs—’Shruti Geetobitan’—released in December 2011. Lily Islam led a delegation from her cultural organisation, ‘Uttarayan’, to India for presentation of a Multi-media Production on Tagore from December 14-20, 2012, at the Kamani Auditorium in Delhi and at the Rabindranath Tagore Centre in Kolkata under ICCR sponsorship.

She has performed in different countries such as India, Singapore, Australia, America, London, Dubai etc. She is the founder of the organisation ‘Uttrayan’ in Bangladesh. She has received several awards like Debobroto Biswas Smriti puroshkar, City Cell Channel-i award, Ajkal potrika Sanskriti Award from Kolkata etc. She is an Associate Professor at Shanto Mariam University of Creative Technology.