Indian Singer Sona Mohapatra was born to a Navy officer had to move to various countries every year, spent five complete years in Africa. Her mother was keen in making her to learn Hindustani music. And Sona had interest in music, Hindi music and in various genres. Sona was passionate to be a singer and she developed to be a pop singer on her own talents. She set up her own band with a new style of blending classical with pop, Bollywood, Folk, Rock and Funk.
 Her band consists of electric Strings, Guitars, Drums, Bass Guitars and Keyboards. Her music skills brought her all the non film category music awards in the year 2007 and she was given a great respect from the audience at the prestigious Lincoln centre, New York. Her younger sister Pratichee Mohapatra is also a singer in Band VIVA. Sona always loved singing and chose it as her career but not for the fame of it.
She did her engineering studies in College of Engineering and Technology (CET), Bhubaneswar. She then pursued her MBA degree from Symbiosis. Pune. She worked as Brand Manager in Marico with a grand salary but then dropped her job for her professional singing career.
Sona’s recent release DilJale is the first Digital release from India on the Nokia music store. The song is made in the streets of New York and sung with Hindustani touch. Sona Mohapatra said about the video “The visuals of the video embody the transition of night into day and are also symbolic of the beauty and loneliness of the cities we live in.†Some of her big hits are Aja Ve, Bolo Na, Sufi Classic Tere Ishq Nachaya, Abhi Nahin Ana.
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