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[[File:UshaChinoy.jpg|thumb|right|400x200px|alt=Usha Chinoy.|Usha Chinoy performing in 1969.]]
'''Usha Chinoy''' (1929–2004) was an Indian educationist and musician<ref>Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211208/cSj9XHumWKM Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20151217082855/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSj9XHumWKM Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{cite AV media| url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSj9XHumWKM| title = "Nahin Ye Fikr Koi Rahbar-e-Kaamil Nahin Milta": Usha Chinoy | website=[[YouTube]]}}{{cbignore}}</ref> from [[Rajkot]], Gujarat.

== Early life and education ==
Usha Chinoy (née Joshi) was born in the former princely state of [[Jamnagar district|Jamnagar]] (Nawanagar) in the Kathiawar peninsula (Saurashtra) of Gujarat to Trambaklal Manishankar Joshi and Yashomati Joshi. She completed her BA (Hons.) at the Dharmendrasinhji College in Rajkot. She later also obtained a diploma in music through the [[Gandharva Mahavidyalaya|Sangeet Visharad]] and Hindustani Vineet degrees. In the city of Jamnagar, she was the first elected female member of the municipal corporation and also Principal of the Sajuba Girls High School from the late 1940s till the early 1950s. Her grandfather, poet and author<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.google.com.mx/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=inauthor:%22Ma%E1%B9%87ica%E1%B9%85kar+K%C5%8Dvintaji%22&gws_rd=ssl|title=inauthor:"Maṇicaṅkar Kōvintaji" - Google Search|website=www.google.com.mx}}</ref> Vaidya Shastri Manishankar Govindji, founded the famous Atank Nigrah pharmacy,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/freepress19260324-1.2.30.4.aspx|title = Page 7 Advertisements Column 4}}</ref> an Ayurvedic firm of great repute, in Jamnagar in 1881.<ref>{{Cite web |title=A Philosophical Review Vol 1 |url=http://www.motherandsriaurobindo.org/Content.aspx?ContentURL=_staticcontent/sriaurobindoashram/-09%20e-library/-01%20works%20of%20sri%20aurobindo/-01%20english/-02_other%20editions/Arya/A%20Philosophical%20Review%20VOL-1/-14_15th%20July%201915.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140819083344/http://www.motherandsriaurobindo.org/Content.aspx?ContentURL=_staticcontent/sriaurobindoashram/-09%20e-library/-01%20works%20of%20sri%20aurobindo/-01%20english/-02_other%20editions/Arya/A%20Philosophical%20Review%20VOL-1/-14_15th%20July%201915.htm |archive-date=2014-08-19}}</ref> The firm had branches in Bombay (Mumbai), Calcutta (Kolkata),<ref>http://dspace.wbpublibnet.gov.in:8080/jspui/bitstream/10689/13923/6/Chapter6_397-476p.pdf {{Bare URL PDF|date=March 2022}}{{Dead link|date=February 2025}}</ref> Madras (Chennai), Poona (Pune), Karachi, Colombo, Rangoon (Yangon), Penang <ref>{{Cite web|url=http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/malayansatpost19260116-1.2.38.aspx|title = Atank Nigrah Pills}}</ref> and Singapore.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/straitstimes19140421-1.2.2.3.aspx|title = Page 1 Advertisements Column 3}}</ref>

== Career ==
Usha commenced her singing career in the 1940s with songs recorded for Young India. Her repertoire on All India Radio and later on the TV channel Doordarshan during the 1960s and 1980s included Gujarati and Urdu ghazals, bhajans, thumris, Gujarati folk songs and light music.<ref>Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211208/Sn4D5pjYgyM Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20151217084621/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sn4D5pjYgyM Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{cite AV media| url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sn4D5pjYgyM| title = Shakeel Badayuni "Zindagani Khud Hareef-e-Zindagani Ho Gayi":Usha Chinoy | website=[[YouTube]]}}{{cbignore}}</ref> She was also a playback singer for Gujarati films. From 1964 to 1974, she was the founding head of the Department of Arts, Crafts and Music and teacher at the [[Rajkumar College, Rajkot]]. In 1967 she went to the United States as part of the [[Experiment in International Living]] program.

== Personal life ==
Usha was married to senior Indian Police Service officer Romeshchandra Chinoy (1925–1991). Her elder sibling, Suresh T. Joshi, was the principal of the Gujarat Ayurveda College in Jamnagar in the 1960s and 1970s. Usha was the daughter-in-law of barrister C. N. Chinoy,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://searcharchives.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&frbg=&scp.scps=scope%3A%28BL%29&tab=local&dstmp=1393785589862&srt=rank&ct=search&mode=Basic&dum=true&indx=1&vl%28freeText0%29=Mr.Chinoy+Rajkot+state&fn=search&vid=IAMS_VU2|title=Login|access-date=15 August 2014|archive-date=27 February 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230227094627/https://searcharchives.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&frbg=&scp.scps=scope:(BL)&tab=local&dstmp=1393785589862&srt=rank&ct=search&mode=Basic&dum=true&indx=1&vl(freeText0)=Mr.Chinoy+Rajkot+state&fn=search&vid=IAMS_VU2|url-status=dead}}</ref> Dewan of the former princely state of Rajkot. She died in 2004 in Shanghai, China, and was survived by her three children, one of whom, [[Sujan R. Chinoy]], was appointed Indian Ambassador to Mexico, and by five grandchildren.

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