Hindustani light- classical singer Rekha Surya trained under Begum Akhtar and Girija Devi. She is from Lucknow and now lives in New Delhi.

In India, she has performed in Mumbai, New Delhi, Calcutta, Dewas, Ujjain, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Bhopal, Indore, Vadodara, Lucknow, Chandigarh, Gwalior, Bhuj, Gandhidham, Burhanpur and Ludhiana.

In the West, she has performed in Washington D.C., New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Madison, Chicago, Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, New Foundland, Oslo and London U.K. She recorded for the archives of Sangeet Natak Academi in 1994. She represented India at the Asian Music Festival in Sri Lanka in 1999.