{"id":212471,"date":"2023-03-10T00:27:17","date_gmt":"2023-03-09T18:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=212471"},"modified":"2023-03-10T00:27:17","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T18:57:17","slug":"renowned-artiste-felicitated-on-iwd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2023\/03\/10\/renowned-artiste-felicitated-on-iwd\/","title":{"rendered":"Renowned artiste felicitated on IWD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ZIRO, 9 Mar:<\/strong> Popularly nicknamed the &#8216;Lata Mangeshkar of Apatani Plateau&#8217; for her yeomen contributions in the field of music for the past three decades, Ania Leegang was conferred the Women Achiever Award in the field of art &amp; culture during the International Women&#8217;s Day (IWD) celebration at the Dorjee Khandu Conventional Centre in Itanagar on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Leegang started her singing career at a tender age in 1989 as a radio artiste at the All India Radio Itanagar, and recorded her first Apatani duet song, &#8216;Niim Kane Hendu Nimmi&#8217; with legendary Apatani male singer Hage Tade.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 1991, Leegang released an Apatani audio album, Popi Sarmi Vol-I &amp; II, which popularised Apatani music and inspired other tribes to bring out audio music albums.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Leegang was also the first radio announcer at All India Radio, Ziro, in 2000. In 2003, she standardised, recorded and digitised the famous Apatani &#8216;Daminda&#8217; folksong in audio format.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She has so far recorded more than 200 vernacular songs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A graduate in agriculture from the College of Agriculture in Mezipema, Nagaland, Leegang is currently posted as a peripatetic training officer at the Farmers&#8217; Training Centre here. (DIPRO)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ZIRO, 9 Mar: Popularly nicknamed the &#8216;Lata Mangeshkar of Apatani Plateau&#8217; for her yeomen contributions in the field of music for the past three decades, Ania Leegang was conferred the Women Achiever Award in the field of art &amp; culture during the International Women&#8217;s Day (IWD) celebration at the Dorjee Khandu Conventional Centre in Itanagar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212474,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-212471","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}