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Benzy was one year old was not crawling, babbling or having eye to eye contact and did not respond to anything but toys with a sound.
When Benzy was two years old she was not able to walk or stand like other children. She would sit in the babysitter for hours and not crawl an inch. Left side of her body totally stiff.
With lot of musle tonning exercises, her left portion became less stiff. Benzy could manage to walk but did not make any effort to even move her hands as if they did not exist. Many times she would fall because of non-movement of hand from shoulders and there was no middle position of balancing.
She was four years old and we parents knew that she will be never like other children. By this time we had tried all therapies and special exercises given to us.
This is when we came to learn that lot of frustration was associated with each activity that Benzy was performing and it needs to be constantly removed every time.
Music therapy was practiced in India in a lighter way. It has the tendency to constantly remove frustration while performing a job activity and this proved to be an effective tool. We constantly played songs and rhymes and we found that we could get few jobs done by Benzy.
Slowly when she was five,we had kept a music teacher to teach Benzy formally Indian classical ragas. At first she did not respond and the teacher also complained that she was not attentive in her class.Though she was not paying any attention but the lyrics kept penetrating her mind. Atlast after two years she started responding.
There was no looking back since then. Her voice became clear louder which was otherwise feeble and seldom heard. She had given her first stage performance at the age of seven. Still she has not overcome and needs assistance in fooding, clothing and toileting, etc.
Despite having multi disability, Benzy had a cassette quality voice. So at the age of nine we had gone for her first cassette named "BASIC RAAGAS" In this Cassette Benzy has sung ten ragas. Interestingly all these ragas is sung by her in one sitting since she was not having any concept of Take-Retake. This cassette was appretiated by renowned singer Madam Subha Mudgal. By this time she was covered by all news paper dailies and most TV news channels. Recently IGNOU had made a documetory film on Benzy.

Thanks to movie of Sri Hritik Roshan 'Kaho Na Pyar Hai' which inspired her so much that Benzy started singing film play back songs with precision and melody. An MR child had her first fan poster of Hritik Ji. By the time she was nine & half yrs old she could play a synthesizer which had 75 keyboard with exact precision like big professionals. She has put herself in a category were a person can sing as well as play music simultaneously which very few 'normal professionals' can do.

The myth assiociated with these type of children that they cannot do anything is modified that with determination and patience these children can achieve which cannot be reached by 'normal' kids.
Recently b y the age of ten we had gone for her second cassette named "KOSHISH" which is launched in the market by Nupur Audio Company. This time she had sung ten film based "prathanas". This is the first experiment in which a MR child has sung on music track. We wish to spread this message far and wide that music has got lot of hidden powers in it.

Her voice was appreciated by all Pioneers of music field which includes Madam Lata mageskar, Madam Asha Bhonsle, Madam Anuradha Podwal,Sir Ravidra Jain ji, Sir Anand ji, Sir Anu Malik ji, Sir Suresh Wadkar ji, Madam Alka Yagnik, Sir Debu Chowdhary ji. We are thankful to great Sri Hritik Roshan who has given lot of time to Benzy. We are also thankful to Sri Rakesh Roshan ji to have humanitarian gesture to meet Benzy which clearly exihibits his greatness.

BIO-DATA


 
NAME BENZY
AGE 14 YEARS (FEMALE)
FATHER PRAVEEN KUMAR
MOTHER KAVITA KUMAR
SCHOOL LAXMAN PUBLIC SCHOOL. NEW DELHI
CLASS FIVE (SPECIAL)
CHOICE MUSIC, CLASSICAL & CLASSICAL BASED OLD SONGS
MILESTONES ACHIEVED AND PERFORMANCES

PERFORMANCE IN INDIA INTERNATIONAL AUDITORIUM
PERFORMANCE IN TRIVENI KALA MANDIR AUDITORIUM
PERFORMANCE IN INDIA INTERNATIONAL CENTRE PERFORMANCE IN NTPC AUDITORIUM AT PMI, NOIDA
AUDIO CASSETTE NAMED ‘BASIC RAAGAS’ IN JUNE 2002
LETTER OF GOVT. FROM REHAB COUNCIL (RCI)ON 2.7.2002
FEATURED IN ZEE NEWS ON 26.07.2002
FEATURED IN ‘THE HINDU’ 29.7.2002
APPRICIATION BY SRI KAPIL DEV PERSONALLY ON 14.8.02
FEATURED IN ‘ PUNJAB KESHRI’ NEWS PARER
SONG FROM ‘AKASHWANI’ DELHI-A ON 25.8.02
FEATURED IN NTPC NEWS MAGAZINE
FEATURED IN NTPC ‘POWER VISION’ VIDEO
FEATURED IN DD-I TV NEWS, ‘KHABRON KI DUNIYA’ -3.9.02
FEATURED IN ‘RASTRIYA SAHARA’ MAGAZINE OF SEPT’02
SONG AGAIN FROM ‘AKASHWANI’ DELHI-A ON 23.09.02
FEATURED IN ‘KARALAMBAN’ MAGZINE SEPT’02 ISSUE
FEATURED IN ‘THE TIMES OF INDIA’ ON 12.10.02
FEATURED IN DD-METRO ON 17-10-02
FEATURED IN THE THE SHRI RAM SCHOOL MAZINE 01’03
PERFORMANCE IN PRAGATI MAIDAN FILM FEATIVAL 04’03
FEATURED IN SAHARA SAMAY TV NEWS CHANNEL IN 04’03
FEATURED IN ‘VOICE’MAGZINE IN JUNE’03 ISSUE
FEATURED IN DD-1 ‘BAL JAGAT’ ON 4/6/03
LETTER FROM MINISTRY OF TOURISM AND CULTURE
FILM ON BENZY BY IGNOU 07’0 3 AS STUDY COURSE MATERIAL
FEATURED IN ‘HINDUSTAN’ NEWS PAPER DAILY ON 15.9.03
-INAUGRATED NATIONAL TRUST AGM ON 30.09.03
-MET LEGANDS IN MUMBAI-, SRI HRITIK ROSHAN, MADAM ASHA BHONSLE, MADAM ANURADHA PODWAL, MADAM ALKA YAGNIK, SRI ANAND JI, SRI RAVINDRA JAIN, SRI ANU MALIK, SRI SURESH WADKAR & OTHERS IN NOV 2003
RECEIVED NATIONAL SPECIAL AWARD AT ‘VIGYAN BHAVAN’ ON 20.1.04
FEATURED IN DD-NEWS ON 14 FEB 2004
FEATURED IN ‘SAHARA SAMAY’ TV NEWS IN FEB’ 04
FEATURED IN ‘SAB TV’ IN ‘KUCH DIL SE…’ ON 21 Feb’04
SONGS AT GANDHI SMIRTI, 5 TEES JAN MARG ON 26 FEB’04
FEATURED IN ‘SAHARA TIMES’ NEWS WEEKLY ON 20 MAR’04
FEATURED IN THE SHRI RAM SCHOOL MAGZINE ’04 ISSUE
SECOND CASSETTE NAMED ‘KOSHISH’ RELEASESD
FIRST PRIZE IN GITANJALI MUSIC COMPETITION ON 24.04.04
SONG AT VAISH MAHASAMMELAN IN MAY 04
SONG IN FRONT OF HONBLE SHIELA DIKSHIT AT AIWC 06.04
AGAIN MET HRITIK ROSHAN JI 26.6.04
FEATURED IN ‘SWAGAT’ MAGZINE OF JULY ISSUE
LETTERS FROM AMERICAN, CANADIAN, FINLAND, PAKISTAN, JAPAN EMBASSY
LETTER OF APPRI. FROM LEGEND LATA MANGESHKAR JI
LETTER OF APPRI. FROM OUR PRESIDENT OF INDIA
FEATURED IN ‘THE HINDU’ NEWS PAPER ON 27.8.04
FEATURED IN ‘THE TIMES OF INDIA’ DAILY NEWS PAPER FOUR TIMES FROM 3.9.04 ONWARDS
SONGS AND INTERVIEW IN ‘FM RAINBOW’ RADIO ON 5.9.04
FEATURED IN ‘ KESAR SANRACHNA’ MAGZINE
STAGE PROGRAMME IN ‘TRIVENI KALA MANDIR’ ON 5.9.04
FEATURED IN ‘PANJAB KESHRI’ ON 18.9.04
LETTER FROM ‘AKSHWANI’ FOR ALLOTMENT OF GRADE OCT’04
2 PAGE ARTICLE IN NOV’5 ISSUE OF FRONTLINE MAG IN ‘SPOTLIGHT’
STAGE PERFORMANCE AT TREVENI KALA SANGAM
FEATURED IN NTPC MAGZINE ‘AKASH’ ON RAISING DAYIN NOV’04
RECEIEVED PRESTIGIOUS NATIONAL AWARD FROM HON’BLE PRESIDENT OF INDIA AT ‘VIGYAN BHAWAN’ ON 3.12.04
FEATURED IN DDNEWS TV CHANNEL ON 6.12.04
CONTINIOUS SONGS FROM RADIO CITY FM 91, 8.12.04 ONWARDS
FEATURED IN ‘HINDDUSTAN TIMES’ DAILY PAPER ON 9.12.04
FEATURED IN THE ARTICLE IN ‘THE HINDU’
FEATURED IN ‘SOUTH DELHI PLUS’ OF ‘TIMES OF INDIA’ 26.12.04
FEATURED IN ‘GURGAON PLUS’ OF ‘TIMES OF INDIA’
FEATURED ALONG WITH BAND IN ‘TODAY’ DAILY 18.01.05
FEATURED WITH BAND FOR TSUNAMI RELIEF IN ‘TOI’
SELECTION FOR 2005 –LETTER FROM ‘LIMCA BOOK OF RECORDS’
FIRST PRIZE IN LPS SCHOOL STAGE PERFORMANCE ON 11.2.05
WELCOME AKSHAY KUMAR(FILM STAR) AT SPECIAL OLYMPICS AT INDIA HABITAT CENTRE ON 19.02.05 WITH SYNTHESIZER
DD NEWS COVERAGE OF THE ABOVE EVENT ON 20.02.05
SONG FOR ‘PARIVAR’ AT INDIA INTERNATINALCENTRE ON 21.02.05
STAGE SHOW WITH USHA UTHUP AT ‘CENTRE MALL’NOIDA IN MARCH’ 05
STAGE PROGRAMME AT ‘SHRI RAM CENTRE’ FOR CULTURE ON 30.4.05
FEATURED IN ‘4TH D WOMAN’ MAGZINE ON 3.5.05
FEATURED IN “LIMCA BOOK OF RECORDS” - NATIONAL RECORD
FEATURED IN ‘NISHANT’ MAG ON 25.7.05 PUB FROM LKO
FEATURED IN ANNUAL MAG OF LAXMAN PUBLIC SCHOOL-2.8.05
FEATURED IN NTPC NEWS MAGAZINE 16.8.05
FEATURED IN ‘ASIAN AGE’ NEWS PAPER 17.8.05
FEATURED IN ‘GREHLAKSHMI’ ‘MAMTA KI CHAON MEIN’ OF SEPT-05 ISSUE
FEATURED IN ‘SAHARA SAMAY’ WEEKLY IN OCT’05
STAGE SHOW WITH ‘TIMES’ GROUP AT GURGAON
STAGE SHOW AT INDIA GATE ON 3RD DECEMBER WITH SYNTHESIZER
STAGE SHOW AT GAZIABAD WITH ORCHESTRA
STAGE SHOW AT SUDAN EMBASSY DURING CHRISTMAS’05
SONG AT LAXMAN PUBLIC SCHOOL 25.12.05
STAGE PERFORMACE WITH M’ANURADHA PODWAL 12.1.06
RECORDING OF INSTRUMENTAL CASSETTE IN STUDIO
WENT TO MUMBAI ON 14.1.06 TO 20.1.06 AND MET LEGENDS SIR UDIT NARAYAN, SIR ADNAN SAMI
DECLARED BRAND AMBASSADOR OF ‘TRIO’ GROUP
PERFORMANCE AT BJP HEAD QTRS WERE GARLANDED BY ‘HEMA MALINI JI’
SURVEY BY www.hindustantimes.com WERE SHE IS WORLDWIDE FEATURED IN INTERNET AMONG 12 TOP LADIES OF INDIA—8 MAR’06
BRAND AMBASSADOR OF ICONGO GROUP
STAGE PERFORMANCE AT ‘HT NEXT’ AT EOK,ND ON 23 APR 2006
FEATURED IN NTPC NEWS MAGAZINE APRIL 2006 ISSUE
PERFORMANCE WITH CII,IBM AT TAJ MANSINGH HOTEL- 2.5.06
PERFORMANCE AT DPS MATHURA ROAD SCHOOLON 8.5.06
PERFORMANCE AT ‘DELHI HAAT’ DAILY FRM 5-14 MAY 06 HERE FIRST EXPERIMENT OF SINGING DUET WITH MALE ALONG WITH ORCHESTRA WAS SUCESSFULLY PERFORMED
CD OF BENZY” SHAKTI” CONTANING 10 SONGS RELEASED BY HON’ MITA PANDIT JI & “INSTRUMENTAL” CD BY HON’ NALINI-KAMALNI JI
PERFORMANCE OF SONGS IN ‘KAMANI’ AUDITORIUM ON 24.5.06
STAGE PERFORMANCE AT ISKON TEMPLE ON 25.6.96
FEATURED IN ‘SUBAH SAVERE’ (DD-1)TV PROGRAMME ON15.7.06
FEATURED IN ‘TODAY; MAGZINE OF 7.10;06
SECOND NATIONAL AWARD FOR ‘EXCEPTIONAL ACHEIVEMENT’ (GOLD MEDAL) BY HON’ PRIME MINISTER ON 14TH NOV’06
COVERED BY ALL NEWS PAPERS
IN ARCHIEVES OF ‘DAINIK JAGRAN’ LKO ADITION OF 16NOV’06 IN NET
STAGE PERFORMANCE AT PYREAY LAL BHAWAN ON 17NOV’06
INTERVEIW OF KAVITA AND SONGS FROM RADIO FM GOLD-18NOV
INTERVIEW OF KAVITA AND SONGS-‘HELLO DELHI’-RADIO MIRCHI-2DEC
PRESS CONFERENCE AT BAREILLY THRO SP. OLYMPIC ON 2.12.06
BENZY WITH MAYOR BAREILLY FOR TORCH RUN, BIG HOARDINGS
C.GUEST/ PERFORMANCE AT BAREILLY ARMY HQ ON 3.12.06 ON ‘WDD’
COVERED BY ALL STATE NEWS PARERS AS ‘SP. SINGER’ON 4.12.06
PERFORMANCE AT AMBASSADOR HOTEL AS BRAND AM’ OF TRYO 9/12
PERFORMANCE AT ‘SHRI RAM CENTRE’ THRO ‘THE PATH’ ON 18.12.06
PERFORMANCE AT ‘GITANJALI’ ATSAI BABA AUDITARIUM ON 20DEC
PERFORMANCE OF SONG IN PORT BLAIR ‘MEGAPODE HOTEL’ON 31DEC PERFORMANCE IN STAGE AT ‘TAJ PALACE’ ROTARY CLUB ON 7.1.07
PERFORMANCE AT ‘SANGAM KALA KENDRA’ AT IIPA HALL ON 14JAN’07
PRESS CONFERENCE/ SONG AT’GANDHI DARSHAN’ BY ICONGO.SEEN ABILITY TO PICKUP ENGLISH SONG EXTEMPORE—WITH BOBBY CASH
STAGE PERFORMACE WITH ‘SUNIDHI CHAUHAN’ ARRANGED BY IDEA GROUP AT DELHI ON 21.2.07
CHIEF GUEST AT ‘CHETNA’, LUCKNOW– 3 SONGS—MANDAKINI / 18.3.07
SRECIAL GUEST AND SONG AT ‘PSK’ HALL AT DELHI- / ANU
‘BENZY NIGHT’ AT SURAYA AUDITORIUM AT LUCKNOW, SOLO AND DUET SONGS. WITH FASHION SHOW/ ON 31.3.07.
STAGE PERFORMANCE AT ‘TREVENI KALA SANGAM’ ON 9.4,07- ANU
SONG AT LPS SCHOOL STAGE, HOUSE 1ST PRIZE, 9.5.07
ROTARY CLUB, ALIGARH, SOLO AND DUET SONGS ON, 15.5.07
SONG AT ROTARY CLUB,ISKON TEMPLE STAGE ON 8,7,07’
STAGE/2000 PUBLIC /IN SIRIFORT AUDITORIUM /15.7.07, EKTA MISSION
FEATURED IN ‘INDIA TV’ ON 5.9.07
THRO SOC. JUS. MINISTRY( PASHA )/ DELHI HAAT / SONG 0N 6.10.07
ISCKON TEMPLE ON 14.10.07 PERFORMANCE WITH U.K SINGERS/ DHOON FOUNDATION/DUET SONGS WITH DIFFERENT ARTISTS
FEATURED IN TV CHANNEL‘IBN-7’,ON14.10.07 IN ‘ZINDAGI LIVE’, COMMENTS OF SUBHA MUDGAL LIVE
CERTIFICATES

1) NATIONAL AWARD CITATION BY OUR PRESIDENT

2) NATONAL SPECIAL AWARD CERTIFICATE BY UNION MINISTER HON’BLE JATIYA SAHEB (GOVT. OF INDIA)

3) PERFOMANCE CERTIFICATE FROM ‘ALL INDIA RADIO’

4) LETTER OF APPRICIATION FROM R.C.I( REHABILITATION CORPORATION OF INDIA).,GOVT. OF INDIA

5) GRADING LETTER FROM ‘ALL INDIA RADIO’

6) CERTIFICATE BY ‘LIMCA BOOK OF RECORDS’

7) SECOND NATIONAL AWARD BY OUR PRIME MINISTER-CITATION

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BENZY
C/o KAVITA KUMAR
G-38B, EAST OF KAILASH
NEW DELHI- 65
TEL: 26923362, 9313923362
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