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List Of Baul Artists
Baul or Bauls ( bn, বাউল) are a group of mystic minstrels from Bengal, which includes the country of Bangladesh and the Indian State of West Bengal. Lalon is regarded as the most important poet-practitioner of the Baul tradition. Baul music had a great influence on Rabindranath Tagore's poetry and on his music (Rabindra Sangeet). List Famous Baul singers both from Bangladesh and West Bengal include: * Abdur Rahman Boyati * Bapi Das Baul * Basudeb Das Baul * Bidit Lal Das * Debu Bhattacharya * Kangalini Sufia * Paban Das Baul * Parvathy Baul * Saidur Rahman Boyati * Shah Abdul Karim * Shyam Sundar Baishnab * Shushama Das Shushama Das ( bn, সুষমা দাস; born 1 May 1930) is a Bangladeshi folk singer. She was awarded Ekushey Padak by the Government of Bangladesh in 2017. Career Das was born to Rashiklal Das and Dibyamoyi Das. She was married to Pran ... References {{DEFAULTSORT:Baul artists Lists of musicians by genre Music of Bangladesh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Basudeb Das Baul
Basudeb Das Baul is a Bengali baul singer and musician from Bolpur in Birbhum district, West Bengal, India; who also plays khamak, ektara, and dotara as an accompaniment. He is known for pioneering traditional Baul music on the international music scene. He also works on the music score for the Australian film ''The Waiting City'' as a featured soloist in 2009. A critically acclaimed Bangladeshi movie "Hawa" also featured one of his celebrated song "Atta baje deri koris na" in his own voice. Early life Basudeb was growing up in a village twenty-five kilometres away from Santiniketan, West Bengal, India. Though he spent most of the time of his life at Santiniketan. Where Basudeb became friends with a number of singers, including Shanti Deb Ghosh, Prabhat Mukharjee and Paban Das Baul. He started singing folk songs since his age of thirteen. Basudeb took baul lessons from several mentors like Shwapan Chatterjee, Dinanath Das Baul, Naran Das, Baka Sham Das, and Bishwanath Das. He col ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shushama Das
Shushama Das ( bn, সুষমা দাস; born 1 May 1930) is a Bangladeshi folk singer. She was awarded Ekushey Padak by the Government of Bangladesh in 2017. Career Das was born to Rashiklal Das and Dibyamoyi Das. She was married to Prannath Das in 1946. Her younger brother Ramkanai Das Ramkanai Das ( bn, রামকানাই দাস; 1935 – 5 September 2014) was a Bangladeshi folk and classical musician. He was awarded Ekushey Padak by the government of Bangladesh in 2014. Early life Das was born in Sullah Upazila of ... was also an Ekushey Padak-winning musician. References Living people 1930 births People from Sullah Upazila Recipients of the Ekushey Padak Bangladeshi folk singers 20th-century Bangladeshi women singers 20th-century Bangladeshi singers Bangladeshi Hindus {{Bangladesh-singer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shyam Sundar Baishnab
Shyam Sundar Baishnab (died 4 December 2000) was a Bangladeshi folk singer. He was awarded Ekushey Padak in 2008 by the Government of Bangladesh for his contribution to music. Career Baishnab originated from Chittagong Chittagong ( /ˈtʃɪt əˌɡɒŋ/ ''chit-uh-gong''; ctg, চিটাং; bn, চিটাগং), officially Chattogram ( bn, চট্টগ্রাম), is the second-largest city in Bangladesh after Dhaka and third largest city in B .... References 2000 deaths Bangladeshi folk singers 20th-century Bangladeshi male singers 20th-century Bangladeshi singers Recipients of the Ekushey Padak Musicians from Chittagong Place of birth missing Date of birth missing {{Bangladesh-singer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shah Abdul Karim
Baul Shah Abdul Karim ( bn, শাহ আবদুল করিম; 15 February 1916 — 12 September 2009) was a Bangladeshi Baul musician. He was awarded the Ekushey Padak in 2001 by the Government of Bangladesh. Some of his notable songs include "Agey Ki Shundor Din Kataitam", "Keno Piriti Baraila Re Bondhu", "Murshid Dhono He Kemone Chinibo Tomare", "Nao Banailo Banailo Re Kon Mestori", "Ashi Bole Gelo Bondhu" and "Mon Mojale Ore Bawla Gaan". He is widely regarded as one of the greatest Baul musicians. He referred to his compositions as ''Baul Gaan''. Unlike bauls who are not married and have children, Shah Abdul Karim was married and had a son. Early life Karim was born on 15 February 1911 in Derai in Sunamganj, Sylhet Sylhet ( bn, সিলেট) is a metropolitan city in northeastern Bangladesh. It is the administrative seat of the Sylhet Division. Located on the north bank of the Surma River at the eastern tip of Bengal, Sylhet has a subtropical climate an .... ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saidur Rahman Boyati
Saidur Rahman Boyati (born 1931) is a Bangladesh folk singer of Baul genre. He was awarded Shilpakala Padak in 2013 and Bangladesh National Film Award for Best Male Playback Singer in 1995. Background and career Saidur Rahman Boyati started his education at Paschim Hasli Primary School in Manikganj. In 1959, he failed the matriculation examination and did not study afterward. The war of liberation for independence started in 1971. Rahman joined the war of liberation. He used to write various songs and poems to give courage to his comrades. At a reception given to Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Sheikh Mujibur Rahman ( bn, শেখ মুজিবুর রহমান; 17 March 1920 – 15 August 1975), often shortened as Sheikh Mujib or Mujib and widely known as Bangabandhu (meaning ''Friend of Bengal''), was a Bengali politi ... in 1972, Saidur Rahman Bayati sang a song he had written about him. Personal life Rahman married Saleha Begum in 1986. They had three sons and a da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parvathy Baul
Parvathy Baul is a Baul folk singer, musician and storyteller from Bengal and one of the leading Baul musicians in India. Trained under Baul gurus, Sanatan Das Baul, Shashanko Goshai Baul in Bengal, she has been performing both in India and other countries since 1995. She is married to Ravi Gopalan Nair, a noted ''Pava Kathakali'' glove puppet artist, and is based in Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala, since 1997, where she also runs, "Ektara Baul Sangeetha Kalari" a school for Baul music. Early life and background Parvathy Baul was born in 1975 or 1976 as Mousumi Parial, in a traditional Bengali Brahmin family in West Bengal. Her family was originally from East Bengal, and migrated to West Bengal after the partition of India. Her father, an engineer with the Indian Railways, was keen on Indian classical music and often took his daughter to concerts. Her mother, a housewife, was a devotee of mystic saint Ramakrishna. Due to her father's posting at various locations in the region, s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paban Das Baul
Paban Das Baul (born 1961) is a noted Baul singer and musician from India, who also plays a ''dubki'', a small tambourine and sometimes an '' ektara'' as an accompaniment. He is known for pioneering traditional Baul music on the international music scene and for establishing a genre of folk- fusion music. Early life Born in Mohammedpur, a small village in the Murshidabad district of West Bengal, where his early musical influences were his father, and wandering baul singers. Career In 1988, Das Baul started collaborating with Sam Mills, a London-born guitarist who had performed with experimental, avant garde group 23 Skidoo between 1979 and 1982. Their collaboration resulted in the acclaimed album ''Real Sugar'' (1997), a Peter Gabriel's Real World Records release, it marked one of the first fusions of Bengali music and Western pop music. He has also collaborated with the London-based State of Bengal and Susheela Raman. In 2005, the Baul tradition was included in the list ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kangalini Sufia
Sufia Khatun (known as Kangalini Sufia; born 01 January 1961) is a Bangladeshi folk singer. Her real name is ''"Anita Halder"''. She performed as a playback singer for the films ''Darodi Shatru'', ''Agun'' and ''Raj Shinghashon''. Early life Sufia was born in 1948/49 in greater Faridpur to Khokon Halder and Tulu Halder. At the age of 14/15, she began singing at village functions. Around 1974, she converted to Islam and took on the name Sufia Khatun. Artist Mustafa Monwar christened her "Kangalini Sufia". Music Sufia mostly performs with a five-member troupe that includes Baul Jahangir, Baul Mander Fakir, Pushpo (Sufia's sister), Chumki Kangalini (Sufia's granddaughter) and Bilkis Banu. She collaborated with other musicians including Kuddus Boyati, Abdur Rahman Boyati and Anusheh Anadil. In October 2016, Sufia released her first CD album titled ''Ma''. Notable songs * ''Poraner Bandhob Re, Buri Hoilam Tor Karone'' * ''Konba Pothey Nitaiganj Jai'' * ''Amra Nari Koto Koshto Kori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Debu Bhattacharya
Deebo Bhattacharya, also known as Debu Bhattacherjee, was a Pakistani-Bangladeshi musician, painter and singer who worked in Lollywood movies during the era of 1960s and 1970s. He was one of the well known composers in Bangladesh as well. He is known for composing the classic song, "''Bare bemurawat hein ye husn walay kahein dil laganay ki koshish na karna''" for the film Badnaam (1966). After 1971, he became a citizen of Bangladesh. He was awarded Ekushey Padak in 1976 by the Government of Bangladesh. He earned the first ever Bangladesh National Film Award for Best Music Director for Choritrohin (1975) jointly with Lokman Hossain Fakir. He was conferred Ekushey Padak posthumus in 1997 for his lifetime contribution to Bengali music. Early life and career Deebo was born into a Bengali family. He arrived in Pakistan from India in 1956 to work as an assistant to Indian music director ''Timir Baran'' who was going to compose music for the film ''Anokhi''. While ''Timir Baran'' mov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bidit Lal Das
Bidit Lal Das (commonly known as Potol Babu; 15 June 1936 – 8 October 2012) was an artist of Shadhin Bangla Betar Kendra. He is a legendary folk singer, composer and music teacher He composed notable Bengali folk songs including ''"Shadher Lau Banailo Morey Boiragi"'', ''"Kare Dekhabo Moner Dukkho Go Ami Buk Chiria"'', ''"Sylhet Prothom Ajan Dhoni Babai Diachhey"'', ''"Pran Kande More Mon Kande Ray"'' and ''"Moriley Kandishna Amar Dai"''. He was an artist of Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendra Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendra ( bn, স্বাধীন বাংলা বেতার কেন্দ্র, lit=Free Bengal Radio Centre) was the radio broadcasting centre of Bengali nationalist forces during the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1 .... Early life Bidit Lal was born on 15 June 1938 in Sheikhghat, Sylhet to a noble zamindar parivaar (landlord family) called "lalbrother's house". His grandfather Bonk Bihari Das was a local zamindar. He was a Pakwaj Badhak. His family was associ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bapi Das Baul
'Bapi' Das Baul is an 8th generation Baul performer of Bengali mystical folk music. He moved from Kolkata to Paris in 1993 and is now known for his fusion work with the groups Senses, Baul Bishwa, Zap Mamma, Fun-Da-Mental, trans global underground, State Of Bengal, Studio Pagol and others in the musical scenes of Paris and London. Bapi was taught to sing, dance, and play several instruments in his early childhood. He started singing with his parents and some baul brothers in the formation "Baul Bishwa" which means "the world of Bauls". Their concerts were invitations to discover their world, the world of ancient wandering minstrels from Bengal (India) who believe in simplicity in life and love. This philosophy is strongly reflected in their songs, that are all about love and joy. His father is Purna Das Baul Samrat, Chief Baul of Bengal. Bapi is very faithful to his traditions and roots which are also present in his music. He uses traditional instruments on stage. On the other ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
