Meena Rana

Meena Rana is one of the folk singer of Uttarakhand, who can be heard on many Garhwali and Kumaoni music albums.^[1]

Early Life

Her schooling was done from Bathla Memorial Girls Senior Secondary School, Rajpur Road, Delhi till 9th standard and then from Girls Inter College (GIC) Mussoorie.

After getting married to Sh. Sanjay Kumola they settled in Delhi. Her husband is a Music Director by profession and runs a music studio Surabhi Multi Track Sound Studio named after their daughter.

She has an elder sister Uma who ismarried to Sh. Ram Lal ji and stay in Mussoorie, and a brother Mohan.

She started singing at a very early age when she a student. She got her first chance to perform in Akashwani Club. Mukesh Lal Kumola, was the president of that club.

During her early time she was not so fluent in Garhwali(dialect) so she performed a Hindi song 'Naino Mein Badra Chhaye'. That went so good that for this I got so much appreciation from the people and media.

Mani Bharti and Puran Singh Rawat took note of her and after a few days they contacted Sh. Ram Lal and asked him if he can allow me to sing for them. Everything got sought after his permission and so she came to Delhi for her first recording. It was her first break for the movie 'Nauni Pichadi Nauni'. She was in class 10th that time.

In the year 1993 she got her first break after which initially she sang for many albums with her elder sister Uma Rana. She got so many chances and sometimes got rejected too, reason being, voice was not so matured at that time.

In the year 1996 Pritam Bartwan gave her a chance to sing in one of his album. Then Narendra Negi gave her chance to sing with him. As of now now she has performed with almost all the renowned singers of Uttarakhand like Narendra Singh Negi, Pritam Bharatwan, Fauji Lalit Mohan Joshi, Gajendra Rana, Anil Bisht and other famous Uttaranchali singers. Her own releases include "Raajuli" and "Saruli".She is the most active female singer in Uttrakhand in this time. She can be seen almost every Uttrakhandi Songs Album as a female singer.

Accordind to an interview in 2010, given by her, she has sang more than 11,000 songs for 2,000 albums or more in languages like Garhwali, Kumaoni, Jaunsari, Jaunpuri, Bhojpuri, Rajasthani, Kargali, Balti and in Hindi. It also includes more than 500 songs which she have sang in Ladhaki.

References

1. ^ http://www.euttaranchal.com/uttaranchal/music_cinema/music_uttaranchal.php

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Name	Rana, Meena
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