Malini Awasthi is an Indian folk singer. She sings in Hindi language dialects like Awadhi, Bundelkhandi and Bhojpuri. She also presents in Thumri

Thumri

Thumri is a common genre of semi-classical Indian music.The text is romantic or devotional in nature, and usually revolves around a girl's love for Krishna. The lyrics are usually in Uttar Pradesh dialects of Hindi called Poorbi and Brij Bhasha...

 and Kajri.

Early life

Malini Awasthi was born in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh

Uttar Pradesh

Uttar Pradesh abbreviation U.P. , is a state located in the northern part of India. With a population of over 200 million people, it is India's most populous state, as well as the world's most populous sub-national entity...

. She is a post graduate in hindustani classical music from Bhatkhande University Lucknow. She is a student of popular folk singer, Girija Devi

Girija Devi

Girija Devi is an Indian classical singer of the Banaras gharana. She performs classical and light classical music and has helped elevate the profile of thumri.-Early life:Girija Devi was born in Varanasi, India in 1929...

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Career

Malini Awasthi is a regular performer at popular classical music festival, Jahan-e-Khusrau

Jahan-e-Khusrau

Jahan-e-Khusrau is an annual three-day sufi music festival held in New Delhi, India to commemorate the death anniversary of the saint Hazrat Amir Khusrau.-The festival:...

. She also participated on TV for NDTV Imagine's Junoon.

Filmography

• Jai Ho Chhath Maiya- Shailendra Singh
  Shailender Singh
  Shailendra Singh is an Indian playback singer. He sang several Hindi songs during the late seventies and the early eighties.-Early life:...
  
  , Malini Awasthi
• Bhole Shankar
  Bhole Shankar (film)
  Bhole Shankar is a Bhojpuri film, released in 2008. Bhole Shankar, labelled as the "Biggest Bhojpuri Film", is a family drama with music by music director Dhananjay Mishra and lyricist Bipin Bahar. The film starred Bhojpuri actor Manoj Tiwari and Hindi actor Mithun Chakraborty...
  
  
• Bumm Bumm Bole
• Soundtrack
  Soundtrack
  A soundtrack can be recorded music accompanying and synchronized to the images of a motion picture, book, television program or video game; a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film or TV show; or the physical area of a film that contains the...