Renowned folk singer Sharda Sinha tests Corona positive, posts video on Facebook

New Delhi: Well-acclaimed folk singer Sharda Sinha has tested positive for the novel Coronavirus. She herself took to Facebook to share the information with her fans.

In her FB post, she says that despite taking all precautions, this pandemic has reached closer to home.

“Your blessings are very necessary for me. I am now going to hospital. When I will return, I will be present before all of you. Many-many thanks. Your blessings and love are required for me,” she said in video post.

“I will soon be back and update all of you,” the acclaimed singer said in closing note.

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Sharda Sinha, a Padma Bhushan awardee, is the pride of not just Bihar but of North India because of her immensely popular songs. She is known and admired across the Hindi belt for her Chhath Puja songs.

Sharda Sinha was born on October 1, 1952 and is an Indian Maithili-language folk singer. Apart from this, she also sings in Bhojpuri as well as Magahi languages.

She was awarded Padma Bhushan, India’s third-highest civilian award, on the eve of Republic Day in the year 2018.
Singers’s 2016 songs were hit with urban audience

Sharda Sinha, a folk singer synonymous with Chhath, had come out with two new songs on Chhath after a decade in 2016 after her last album of devotional songs in 2006.

In the songs – with lyrics like Supawo Naa Mile Maai and Pahile Pahil Chhathi Maiya – Sharda is urging people to come to Bihar during Chhath. Though old, the songs are relevant and devotees play them every year.