Salma Akhter

She rose to fame in 2006 after winning the second season of "Closeup 1 Tomakei Khujchhey Bangladesh", a television series broadcast on NTV.

[3] She was born in the village of Gangarampur, Daulatpur Upazila, Kushtia District, Khulna Division.

[citation needed] At the age of four, she began to receive music lessons from Baul Shafi Mandal, who taught her to sing in the classical and folk music traditions.

In 2006, at the age of twelve, she became the winner of the second season of the reality TV show Closeup One.

[5] In 2010, she married Shibli Sadique, a businessman and the incumbent member of parliament from Dinajpur-6 constituency.