Rini reminded Lata Ji at Santa Clara during NABC 2017

Rini reminded Lata Ji at Santa Clara during NABC 2017

North American Bengali Conference,(NABC),  a three- day annual conference is held each year in different cities across USA.  This year the conference was held in the heart of the world famous Silicon Valley- in the city of Santa Clara, California, and was attended by about 5000 local and international music lovers. Organizers played a magnificent role and got tremendous appreciation towards managing this gigantic event efficiently, to make it a grand success. Renowned artists, film makers, singers, poets and musicians of Bengal, not to mention eminent literary figures, were invited to this conference to showcase the brilliance of Bengali culture and heritage.

Rini Mukherjee, an incredible talent and an established singer from New Delhi, mesmerized the audience with her singing onSalil Choudhury’s compositions on high octaves with difficult meters. Her melodious renditions and supremacy in higher octave drew rich applause.  “The moment I heard Rini singing, I was reminded of LataMangeshkar ! Her voice is versatile, melodious, and enthralling”, said SurajitSengupta, a member of the Steering Committee of the conference. “Our audience cheered her remarkable performance!

Rana Bose, a member of the Organizing Committee, was full of praise for Rini’s rendering of Salil Choudhury’s songs. “Her singing reminded me of an era gone by, a period of time when Bengal had reached a new height in melody”, he commented. NABC looks forward to Rini’s participation in the years to come!

Among the leading film directors, actors, actresses, poets, singers from Bengal,Sandip Ray, Aparna Sen, Rituparna Ghosh, SabyasachiCharaborty, Ranjit Mallick, Tanushree Shankar, Debojyoti Mishra, Subodh Sarkar were present on this occasion. The programme started with spectacular opening ceremony duly conducted by Tanushree Shankar and Debojyoti Mishra. Along with them, Dalia Sen played an important role in conducting opening and closing ceremony.

Performances of Shaan,SubhaMudgal, Rahul Sharma and other renowned singers, dancers, musicians, ofBengal and different parts of the globe,made this event a memorable one.