Background
Mina Rana was born on May 24, 1975 in Delhi.
singer of Uttarakhand Uttarakhandi singer
Mina Rana was born on May 24, 1975 in Delhi.
She can be heard on many Garhwali and Kumaoni music albums. She is considered to be one of the best female singer of Uttarakhand and even said to be the Lata Mangeshkar of Uttarakhand. In November 2014, she mesmerized the Sardotsav in Pithoragarh.
There she continued her study from mussoorie Girls Inter College, Mussoorie.
She did rest of her schooling staying with them. Mina Rana did not got any formal training from anywhere.
Since her childhood she was a big fan of Lata Mangeshkar. She started singing at a very early age when she was just a student.
In Mussoorie, there was one Akashvani Club where she got her first chance to perform.
Mukesh Lal Kumola, who is her relative now, was the President of that club At that time she was not so fluent in Garhwali so she performed a Hindi song Nainon Men Badra Chhaye. That performance went so good and for that she got appreciation from the people and media.
Mani Bharti and Puran Singh Rawat witnessed her performance.
After few days they contacted shri Ram Lalji(elder sister,s husband) and asked him if he can allow her to sing for them. After his permission she came to Delhi for her first recording 1991.
lieutenant was her first break for the movie "Nauni Pichadi Nauni". She was in highschool at that time.
Till now she have performed with almost all the renowned singers of Uttarakhand like Shri chandra singh rahi narender singh negi,pritam bhartwan Gajendra Rana, Anil Bisht, Virendra Rajput, Manglesh Dangwal, Dinesh Uniyal kishan mahipal,virender dangwal, darwan naithwal nain naath rawal prahlad mehra prakash bisht deewan kanwal lalit mohan joshi jitender tomkiyal pappu karki jagmohan digari and many others
She have sung in many languages like Garhwali, Kumaoni, Jaunsari, Jaunpuri, Bhojpuri, Rajasthani, Kargali, Balti and in Hindi. ram ram ji Young Uttarakhand Cine Award.