Ahmedabad, DeshGujarat, 6 December 2014

‘Khobo Bharine Ame Etlu Hasya’ and ‘Umbre Ubhi Sambhlu Re Bol Valamna’ fame Gujarati singer, Mumbai based Nirupama Sheth passed away. She was 81-year-old.

Gujarat Chief Minister Anandiben Patel has condoled sad demise of Nirupamaben.

Born on 14 July 1933 in Gondal, Nirupama Sheth was daughter of Ansuya Joshi and Purushottam Joshi. She was married to famous Gujarati musician and singer Ajit Sheth in year 1957 in Mumbai.

Student of BA(Psychology) from Wilson College Mumbai, Nirupamaben strated her journey of music when she was just 5 years old. She had won several prizes in various music programmes since childhood. She represented Gondal at state level in music competition. She was known as Nightingale of Wilson when in college. She worked with famous music composers/directors Avinash Vyas, Ajit Merchant, Dilip Dholakiya, Bhanubhai Thakar, Ninu Majumdar etc. She had given numerous programmes on radio and TV.

‘Giridhari Gagan’ was her first song with Shri Ajit Sheth. From here, she went closer to Ajitbhai which resulted in love and love marriage.

Ajit sheth(passed away in year 2006) and wife Nirupama sheth set up ‘Sangeet Bhavan Trust’ and created best of Gujarati music.

Nirupamaben was Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan’s Mumbai branch secretary for a decade or so. She would organize programms like ‘this month’s songs’ at Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan there.

Very few people know, but Nirupamaben was into writing too. She had penned down ‘Tagor in Hindi films’ in English and stories and novel like ‘Naari’ and ‘Mukti’.

(Details from Sakshar no sakshatkar, Rannade publication)

Khobo Bharine(Jagdish Joshi) & Umbre Ubhi(Manilal Desai) songs in voice of Niupama Seth

Nirupamaben’s songs on Tahuko.Com