Gouri Choudhury was born into a musical family in Bangladesh and started singing from the age of six. Gouri has over 20 years experience singing folk songs, the songs of Rabindranath Tagore and modern songs in multiple languages, including Bengali, Hindi and Urdu. For her award-winning singing Gouri attracted praise and admiration from Sitar maestro Ravi Shnkar and the Beatles-star George Harrison. Gouri has toured in Europe, the US and Canada and in the UK has performed at the Royal Albert Hall.
Gouri has been voted best British South Asian singer in the UK and is the one of the UK’s finest ambassadors of Bengali/South Asian music. She was featured as vocalist in the popular English Rock band Kula Shaker in 1996, and Crispian Mills on Peasants, Pigs & Astronauts in 1999.
Gouri Choudhury was awarded Best Singer by Bangla TV in 2004, BIMA in 2004, ATN Bangla TV in 2005 and the community award for Best Singer by Channel S in 2006. She won the “Best Performance Award” after being asked by Zee TV to perform on their show Antaksari in 2002. She represented Bangladesh in a popular TV reality show Sa Re Ga Ma in 2011 as the top performer. Recently she received the community champion award by Canary Wharf management group and then as the best inspirational woman by Nari Chetona in London.
Gouri now lives in London and teaches Hindi and Bengali music to younger children through the music company Gouri Choudhury Suraloy.
‘Listen to the World’ is a place of live music where the traditions and talents of migrants, refugees and asylum seekers find a home among local artists. Come and join us, as either a listener or performer, everyone is welcome.
A playlist of shorts and other recordings from the Listen to the World programme can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/@StEthelburgasLondon
A showreel of previous events in 2021 is here: Listen to the World Open Mic – Showreel 2021 – YouTube
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