Rajasree Mukherjee is an Honors graduate in Zoology from Lady Brabourne College, Kolkata. She trained in Rabindra Sangeet from Padmasree Suchitra Mitra and ranked first class first in her Diploma examination from Rabi Tirtha School of Music, Kolkata. She is a double graduate in, vocalist and leading teacher of Indian Classical and Traditional music. Ranked second in Rabindra Sangeet all India basis, in her Sangeet Prabhakar graduation examination conducted by Prayag Sangeet Samiti, Allahabad. In 1975 she toured and performed in the United States and Canada with Suchitra Mitra. She later did her second graduation in Indian music, securing the Sangeet Visharad degree from Pracheen Kala Kendra, Chandigarh.
A gifted singer with a melodious voice she has proved to be a very popular performer. Her numerous concerts in Kenya, Tanzania, India, Canada and the United States have all drawn full houses. In addition to being a popular performer she is one of the most reputed trainers in Indian music in East Africa. She has written lyrics for over 120-film and non-film songs and recorded leading playback singers like Alka Yagnik, Kavita Krishnamurthy, Anuradha Paudwal, Abhijeet, Vinod Rathod, Mohamed Aziz and Shailendra Singh among others. As an experienced Music Therapist she has used Indian Classical music to great effect in meditation techniques. She has conducted several workshops on music over Television and Radio.
Mrs. Mukherjee has also composed a special number in honor of the President of India, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, which she sang to a full house at the Aga Khan Auditorium in Daressalaam during the President's visit to Tanzania in September 2004.
Mrs. Mukherjee moved to Nairobi, Kenya in 1990 and has lived in Africa for the past seventeen years. She founded the Ma Sharda School of Music in Nairobi, Kenya, at which she trained many young singers and which produced several singers of international repute. Today she has over 500 students that now live in Australia, India, Tanzania, Kenya, United Kingdom and the United States.
In three occasions she has been the recipient of the Government of India Grant for promotion of Indian culture abroad. In February 2002 she received an award in recognition of her outstanding contribution from the High Commission of India. The award was presented by the Vice President of Kenya Professor George Saitoti
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