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Kumari Sweta, also known professionally as Singer Anu Pandey (October 1994) is an Indian singer trained in Indian classical music, lyricist and live performer. She has sung many original songs, cover songs, folk songs in various languages such as Hindi, Bhojpuri, Punjabi etc.

Early Life
Kumari Sweta was born to a middle class family in Gopalganj, Bihar. Her father is a farmer and mother is a housewife. Sweta completed her schooling upto higher secondary at H/S Jamunaha Bazar in Gopalganj. She joined BBN College to study Arts. Later She joined JP University to persue Bachelors including Music. She also joined Masters in Music to gain expertise in this field. Sweta was trained in Indian classical music, Harmonium. Her interest in music was there since childhood. She performed in many stage shows starting from her school days. Later on, she started singing in albums, at jagrans and other musical functions also.

Social Work
She had a break in her carrier due to heart diseases which she recovered positively. After successful heart surgery, She started helping rural girls by raising funds through her songs for their education, so young girls of rural areas consider her as inspiration, because she belongs to remote rural area (particulary in Bihar), where girls rights are still questionable ( women are confronted by discrimination and inequality, victims of child marriage, forced pregnancy, trafficking and sexual assaults, inability to access food, education and employment, gender-based violence against women ). She fought with society to be independent, faced many clashes, then came up stronger everytime. She is working with various NGOs, for the uplifting of the status of girls in rural areas. She is trying to let more people connect with her songs/ideas and help in betterment of the status of girls in rural areas.

Music career
She has been a reknowned singer mainly in UP/Bihar region. She has been a part of many songs/albums of various music companies (like Yashi Music having audience around 4430000 (4.43 million), Shubham Films having audience around 844000 (0.844 million), Shreshth Bhojpuri having audience around 16700, Palak Music Bhojpuri having audience around 10400, BABA HARIRAM ENTERTAINMENT having audience around 4100, Sawan Entartainment having audience around 1060, VINAYAK MAURYA FILMS having audience around 764, etc.) which surface on the platforms like youtube, gaana, etc. She performs live in offline stage shows/programs, jagrans as well. Recently she was covered in news while performing on stage in Thawe Mahotsav.