Nilufar Yasmin

Nilufar Yasmin was a Bangladeshi singer of Nazrul Sangeet, Rajnikant, Dwijendralal Rayand Atul Prasad Sen genre.  Her siblings are Farida Yasmin, Fauzia Yasmin, Nazma Yasmin, and Sabina Yasmin. She was awarded Ekushey Padak in 2004 by the Government of Bangladesh.

She won Bangladesh National Film Award for Best Female Playback Singer for her performance in the film Shuvoda(1986). Yasmin was born on 13 February 1948 in Kolkata. Her father, Lutfar Rahman, was a former provincial Civil servant of British India and her mother Begum Mouluda Khatun from Murshidabad was a vocal artist who took music lessons from musician Ustad Kader Baksh.

Yasmin completed her bachelor's and master's in sociology from the University of Dhaka . She first took classical music lessons from PC Gomes in 1964. She took Nazrul song lessons from Sheikh Lutfar Rahman and Sudhin Das.