When Runa returned to Bangladesh in the 1970s after building a successful career in Pakistan, she faced hostility and ...

I was in Karachi, Pakistan in 1966 when Runa Laila first appeared in the music horizon, taking the listeners by storm with her song, “Unki nazrosey mohabbatka jo paigham mila….”. The lilting romantic ...

Singer Runa Laila occupies a special place in South Asian music. Born in Bangladesh when it was still East Pakistan, then establishing a successful musical career in India and Pakistan too, Laila has ...

Runa Laila, one of the most prominent singers in the subcontinent, is all set to mark 50 years of her career in music by performing in a concert aptly title Gaaney Gaaney 50 in London. On September 24 ...

Who does not remember that cherubic young girl who lit up the Zia Mohyeddin Show in the 1970's? In India, she is the Damadam girl, who almost posed a threat to the near-monopoly of the invincible ...