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Khulna. Bangladesh

Krishnokoli who's first album, 'Shurje Badhi Basha' came out on Pahela Baishakh 2007, is a carefree tomboy from Khulna.

Though her mother was a government college teacher, and her childhood home in Khulna was filled with books, singer Krishnakali claims to be 'completely uneducated'.

Although her contract with Bengal Music Company is for three albums, Krishnakali says she has no idea when her next one will appear. 'If it happens, it happens,' she says humorously. ‘Maybe it will, maybe it won’t.'

Paribag. Dhaka

Her mother taught her to sing at the age of three, but Krishnakali says it would have been better to start later, because the voice is not really developed enough to sing until the age of seven or so.

She is fond of classical music, old Bangla songs as well as some Bryan Adams, Pink Floyd, Bob Dylan and the Beatles, whom she describes as ‘revolutionary’. She finds Bangla cinema songs to be irritating though, and sees much of contemporary Bangla music as rather formulaic.