Mehreen’s singing training started, as she says, before her birth. As her sister used to learn oriental (north Indian) classical vocal at home, her orientation with music was from the first days of her life – even before! And thus her access to the music was automatic. She was discovered to be a marvelous harmonium player when she was not even four. She first began primary sargams from Ustaad Pulin Dey. Then she moved on to chchayanot.   The story of her first day there at chchayanot she fondly remembers. Her mom took there to be admitted, understandably, at a primary class, since she was only seven then. Ustaad Mithun Dey was sitting afar while she was being tested. He called her to him. And readily took her to his class as the youngest student of first year classical section. It was her bad luck, she says, that she was blessing with his attention only for a few months as he fell ill soon after.   Her early life was a bit of here now and there then. But music was always with her. Her portable harmonium was always along, representing bangla music worldwide at a tender age. She aspired for perfection unknowingly from then on. It was during her visit to the West Indies when she joined the school choir as a member of the senior choir. She has always been under the guidance of her music teacher and very much believes in music to be “guru mukhi”. She was an active musician at school (viqarun nisa noon) and college (holy cross).