Beauty Sharma Barua (born 18 June 1951) is a singer from Assam, India. She is one of the best-known and most respected Assamese folk music, Indian classical music, ghazal and bhajan singers of Assam. More popularly known as The Melody Queen of Assam and Beauty Baideu, she has recorded over a thousand songs for All India Radio, Doordarshan, albums and others. She has sung songs in over six regional Indian languages, though primarily in Assamese and Hindi. Beauty Barua married renowned writer and lyricist Dwijendra Mohan Sharma (1948–2006), called the Man with Melody in His Pen by The Daily Telegraph, in 1976. Early life Sangeet Prabhakar Beauty Sharma Barua was born in Dafalating Tea Estate, Golaghat, Upper Assam. She was the youngest daughter of Bhubaneshwar Barua and Nirmala Barua, granddaughter of Assamese literary legend, Lakshminath Bezbaroa. Since the age of 3, Beauty Sharma Barua started learning Sanskrit Shlokas and Assamese devotional songs like Borgeet, Aai Naam and Prarthana geet from her parents. Since the age of 4, she took her first lessons in Indian classical music and light folk music from different gurus from Jorhat. Since the age of 5, she started teaching folk songs to children of tea estate workers at the Dafalating Tea Estate and emerged as a child folk singer at the age of 6. In 1958, when she was 7, she was facilitated by the first Prime Minister of independent India, Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru for her singing capabilities. Since the age of 9, she was trained in Indian Classical Music by maestros like Rajmohan Das, Tulsi Chakraborty, Anil Dutta, Lakshi Saikia and Pandit Motilal Sharma from the Kirana Gharana, later Indore Gharana. She was also trained in other light classical forms of music like Dadra, Thumri and Kajri by Begum Akhtar and Ghazal by Bal Gautam. Singing career Early career in the 1960s Since the late 1960s, Beauty Sharma Barua started gaining popularity through her songs aired by All India Radio Guwahati, Shillong, Jorhat and Dibrugarh including special shows on her hosted by All India Radio, Imphal. She soon became a frequent guest in shows and features hosted by various All India Radio stations. Back then, she was more known for her Ghazal, Bhajan and Indian Classical Music. Her first song recorded by All India Radio, Guwahati was Tumaloi Monot Pore, written by Nurul Haque and Music by Jitu Tapan in 1968. This song was later