Rita Saikya

A 31-years-old artist from Dura, Agra, Rita Saikya, is a chorus singer who found her father, Jwala Prasad, and her grandmother, Chandu Devi (an AIR artist), as her inspiration. She has been working hard towards achieving mastery in her craft and pursues it with soaring passion. She considers her father, Jwala Prasad, as her Guru and speaks very highly of his teachings and calibre in the field of music. Most of her songs are thus written, made, and sung to be in a similar style. She believes to have inherited this talent from her grandmother, who has a natural talent for mastering the art of singing Braj ki Lokgeet. When she was a child, she would try to imitate Chandu Devi and thus picked up the will to sing and never stopped learning. She also knows how to sing bhajan, ghazal apart from Braj ki Lokgeet and has performed only in All India Radio and has done no stage shows yet. Rita lives in a family of 5 people with her father, mother, two brothers, and sister. She is still pursuing her studies, completed her Bed, and also into social work. Despite all her struggles, she strives to keep developing her craft and dreams to work towards folk music, especially, Braj lokgeet and wishes to take this music to greater heights.

• Braj
• Uttar Pradesh