Krishna Dasgupta was born in Janai, Hooghly in West Bengal on 29 December 1937.

She was a noted disciple of renowned Indian classical vocalists Acharya Tarapada Chakraborty and Ustad Amir Khan.

[4] Krishna Dasgupta was an accomplished versatile singer, particularly known for her khyal, thumri, bhajan, as well as Bengali modern songs.

She had done playback for songs composed by Pandit Jnan Prakash Ghosh, as well for Bengali films like Asamapta (1956), Ektara (1957), Rajlakshmi O Srikanta (1958),[5] Bhranti, Nader Nimai (1960) and Bipasha (1962), among others.

[2] One of her students, Nandini Chakraborty, the daughter of renowned cinematographer Ramananda Sengupta, has created a documentary on her life, Harano Sur.