Fascinated by the drum, she began immersing herself in the folk and Latin music scenes, playing percussion before taking up the baritone ukulele, her signature instrument. Embracing a call-and ...

Milwaukee Repertory Theater has revived "Lumberjacks in Love," the bouncy backwoods folk musical that's one of the sweetest fruits of the American Folklore Theatre/Northern Sky tree in Door County.

The singer, fondly called as 'Bihar Kokila', has left behind an indelible legacy in the world of Indian folk music with her timeless melodies. With a career spanning several decades, Sharda Sinha was ...

Political leaders and public figures mourned her death. They called her 'Bihar Kokila' and praised her contribution to folk music. Sinha's songs were popular in Bihar and Jharkhand. She was ...

Popular folk singer Sharda Sinha, known as 'Bihar Kokila' for her melodious rendition of Chhath and folk songs such as "Kartik Maas Ijoriya", "Suraj Bhaile Bihaan" and Bollywood hits "Taar Bijli" and ...

For her contribution to music, Sinha was awarded the Padma Shri in 1991 and Padma Vibhushan in 2018. Beyond folk music, Sinha also ventured into Bollywood and sang songs in some popular films, ...

Sinha, and said her demise is an irreparable loss to the music world. In a post on X, he noted that her folk songs in Maithili and Bhojpuri were extremely popular. Her songs on Chhath, a grand ...

Her discography boasts over 62 Chhath songs spread across nine albums, in collaboration with major music labels like T-Series and HMV. In addition to her folk music, Sharda Sinha made a notable impact ...

While she earned popularity with marriage and Chhath songs, she appealed as much to connoisseurs of classical folk music with her Vidyapati songs such as Kanak Bhudhar Shikhar Vasini. However, she was ...

Bihar CM Nitish Kumar issues a statement on the demise of noted folk singer Sharda Sinha. He expressed deep sorrow over the acclaimed singer's death and that her passing marks an irreparable loss to ...