Geeta Pattnaik was born in Cuttack, oDishA on December 10, 1954 in a family of music lovers. Her father Shri Surendra Chandra Pattnaik was a Civil Engineer and Mother Hemanta Kumari Pattnaik was a trained singer. Geeta showed her musical leanings from a very young age and started learning music at Kala Vikash Kendra, Cuttack simultaneously with her regular school studies at Sanata Nalini Girls’ School, Cuttack.

Guru Ragunath Nanda was her first music teacher. Later she learned classical music (Hindustani Vocal) from some of the greatest maestros of that time like Rakhal Chandra Mohanty, Balakrushna Dash and Khitish Chandra Maitra and awarded “Sangeet Bhusan for Utkaliya Sangeet”.

Her elder sister Indira Pattnaik was a student of music too. Due to some unavoidable problems Indira discontinued learning music at the middle but she never stopped herself inspiring Geeta for being a Playback Singer. Younger sister Sudheera Pattnaik is also a dancer. Geeta also completed her masters both in Political Science and OdiA Literature but she rather chose singing as her profession.

In 1988, she married Mr. Krishna Gopal Batra and moved to Delhi with her husband.