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Musical Programme by Kabir Suman And Others

Timing: 18:30 [November 29, 2008 - November 29, 2008]

Kabir Suman, Tagore, Himangshu Dutta, Keya Chattopadhyay

Vocal

Kolkata > West Bengal > India

Kabir Suman will render songs of Tagore and Himangshu Dutta, and Keya Chattopadhyay will present songs of Tagore and Salil Chowdhury. Learn more about: Kabir Suman Kabir Suman first self composed album hit the market in 1992 and almost overnight, he became a cult figure, especially among the young people. Over the last 9 years he has been accepted in West Bengal as a pioneer who transformed the modern Bengali song by making it truly contemporary and global. Till now, he has over two hundred recorded and published songs to his credit, including songs for children, for the theatre and for films. He has written the score for 5 films, and one of them got him the Best Music Director and Best Lyricist award. He happens to be the only singer-songwriter in the Indian subcontinent with whom the great American folk singer Mr. Pete Seeger performed jointly on two concerts, held in Kolkata in 1996. Mr. Pete Seeger also did the background music for Mr. Sudipto Chatterjee’s documentary film on “Suman, Free to Sing”. Apart from giving concert tours all over India, Bangladesh, USA and Australia, Suman was invited by the Voice of Germany to compose a ballad in Bangla, commemorating the Tenth Anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, and to perform it before an international audience in Cologne in 1999. He has recently participated in the first time ever Internet Opera, Virtopera, along with the counter tenor Richard Maxwell and Jane Bogart under the direction of the famous German composer, Mr. Eberhard Schoener.