The money raised was used to build a cancer hospital in Dhaka. Charity Īfter her sister died in 1976 from cancer, Laila held several charity concerts in Dhaka. Her grandson Zain Islam had been selected for the Arsenal progression center in 2012 when he was eight. She first married Khawaza Javed Kaiser, secondly a Swiss citizen named Ron Daniel and then actor Alamgir. Runa has sung in seventeen languages including her native Bengali, Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi, Sindhi, Gujarati, Pashto, Baluchi, Arabic, Persian, Malay, Nepalese, Japanese, Italian, Spanish, French and English. In 2014, she collaborated with Sabina Yasmin on a song for a television play "Dalchhut Projapoti", the first time they worked on a song together. She described her relationship with fellow judge Asha Bhosle as that of sisters. In 2012, Laila served as a judge on the show Sur Kshetra, an Indian television contest show for amateur singers. In October 2009, she released Kala Sha Kala, a collection of Punjabi wedding songs, in India. In 1982, she won Golden Disk Award as her album Superuna composed by Bappi Lahiri was sold over 1 lakh copies on the first day of its release. Laila's name has been written on the Guinness World Records for recording 30 songs within 3 days. In 1974, she recorded Shaadher Lau in Kolkata. She gained popularity in India with the songs O Mera Babu Chail Chabila and Dama Dam Mast Qalandar. She first worked with the music composer Kalyanji-Anandji for the title song of a film called Ek Se Badhkar Ek (1976). She started in Bollywood with director Jaidev, whom she met in Delhi, got her the chance to play at the inauguration of Doordarshan. Shortly after had her first concert in India in 1974 in Mumbai. Her first Bengali song was O Amar Jibon Shathi for the film Jibon Shathi (1976), composed by Satya Saha. Laila moved to Bangladesh along with her family in 1974. She started appearing on the Zia Mohyuddin Show (1972–74) and later sang songs for films in the 1970s such as the film Umrao Jaan Ada (1972). In PTV, she had a show called Bazm E Laila. In 1966, Laila made her breakthrough in the Pakistani film industry with the song Unki Nazron Sey Mohabbat Ka Jo Paigham Mila for the Urdu film Hum Dono. When Laila was 12, she performed as a playback singer for a male child actor in the Urdu language film Jugnu. Her cousin, Anjumara Begum, had already been a known singer. She, along with her sister, were trained by Ustad Abdul Kader Peyarang and Ustad Habibuddin Ahmed. While she was a student of Saint Lawrence Convent, she won an inter-school singing competition in Karachi in the then West Pakistan. She then learned classical music with her elder sister Dina Laila (d. Laila became a fan of singer Ahmed Rushdi whom she considered her guru (teacher), and tried to emulate not only his singing style but also the way he used to perform on the stage. Following Rushdi's success, Christian bands specialising in jazz started performing at various night clubs and hotel lobbies in Karachi, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Dhaka and Lahore. In those days, Ahmed Rushdi was the leading film singer who introduced rock n roll, disco and other modern genres to South Asian music. She started taking dance lessons of Kathak and Bharatanatyam genre. Laila was born in Sylhet to Syed Mohammed Imdad Ali, a civil servant posted in Karachi, and Amina Laila.
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