Tapan Mahmud is a Bangladeshi

Rabindra Sangeet ''Rabindra Sangeet'' (; ), also known as Tagore Songs, are songs from the Indian subcontinent written and composed by the Bengalis, Bengali polymath Rabindranath Tagore, winner of the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature, the first Indian and also the ...

singer. He received Rabindra Padak from

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in 2016.

Career

In 1958, at the age of 5, Mahmud started taking music lessons from Narayan Chandra Saha, Fazle Nizami and Arabinda Bishwas. He rendered songs at the

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and

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as a special grade artist since 1969. During the

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in 1971, he joined the

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and also rendered voice as a Rabindra Sangeet artist for the Akashbani Radio of

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. Mahmud started singing since the early 1970s. He formed a cultural group, ''Boitalik''. Mahmud served as the founder general secretary of Bangladesh Rabindra Sangeet Shilpi Sangstha (RSSS) from 1988 to 2011 and then as the president of the organization. He has also served as a senior teacher of

and later as principal of the

Bulbul Lalitakala Academy Bulbul Lalitakala Academy (now known as Bulbul Academy of Fine Arts or BAFA) is an institution of fine arts established in Dhaka on 17 May 1955, founded by Begum Afroza Bulbul, wife of Bulbul Chowdhury Bulbul Chowdhury (1 January 1919 – 17 Ma ...

during 1979–2008. Mahmud has released several albums.

References

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