Leila Arjumand Banu (Bengali: লায়লা আর্জুমান্দ বানু; 5 January 1929 – 10 February 1995) was a Bangladeshi singer and social activist.
[2][3] Banu was born on 5 January 1929, to a Bengali Muslim family of zamindars who held lands in Sonargaon.
Through her paternal great-grandfather Mir Ghulam Mustafa Al-Husayni, she was a descendant of 16th-century Islamic scholar and zamindar Syed Ibrahim Danishmand.
She trained in classical South Asian Music like Ghazal, Nazrul Geeti, and Rabindra Sangeet.
Her first professional performance was a solo at the inaugural broadcast of All India Radio on 16 December 1939 in Dhaka.