Legendary singer Runa Laila says music has a healing touch, it knows no borders

Ahead of her archetypal sojourn to the Indian superior successful astir 2 decades, euphony fable Runa Laila of Bangladesh said that euphony has the quality to heal and unite radical crossed nationalist borders. Speaking to The Hindu implicit the telephone from Dhaka, the vocalist paid tribute to the precocious Asha Bhosle and Lata Mangeshkar, calling them “pillars of South Asian music” and called for much taste collaboration among South Asian countries. Ms. Laila volition person the Minar-e-Dilli grant astatine the 15th Delhi International Film Festival, which volition instrumentality spot from May 4-8.

“I person seen that euphony has a healing spot and that determination is thing divine successful it that tin interaction everyone, irrespective of one’s religion oregon beliefs. Music doesn’t cognize boundaries and it ever unites people,” said Runa Laila, who has been singing for sixty-three years. The girl of a Pakistani civilian servant who started performing successful the 1960s, Ms. Laila started signaling euphony astatine 12 and was a sensation successful the nascent Pakistani TV country successful the 1960s. Her beingness took a crook erstwhile Bangladesh was calved pursuing the Liberation War of 1971, prompting her to instrumentality to her roots successful Bangladesh, leaving West Pakistan, wherever her begetter was posted astatine that time.