Hemanta Mukherjee (Singer)

Hemanta Mukherjee

Singer

Hemanta Mukherjee is a Indian playback singer, music director and film producer. He won two National awards for the category best male playback singer.
Sailesh Datta Gupta introduced Hemanta to Rabindra Sangeet in which he became an exponent later. He had no formal training on Rabindra Sangeet. Sailesh Datta Gupta one day asked him if he knew Rabi Thakur's Songs. When he said in negative, Sailesh Datta Gupta gave him a book that had the notations of the Song "Aamar Mallika Bone". He learnt the song immediately. This was the first time that he learned Rabindra Sangeet. It was Rabindra Sangeet that gave Hemanta all sorts of inspiration through out his music career. To fine tune and embellish his technique for singing Rabindra Sangeet, he took Rabindra Sangeet lessons from Suchitra Mitra, the celebrated Rabindra Sangeet Legend and continued to hear Rabindra Sangeet Classes given by Pankaj Mallik in All India Radio.
Hemanta's initiation into Rabindra Sangeet made an everlasting impact on his composition of music through out his music career. Initially the listeners - upon hearing his Rabindra Sangeet - would dub him as a clone of Pankaj Mallik as he emulated Pankaj Mallik's style of singing in the very beginning. If we hear the Rabindra Sangeet of Hemanta's early years, we can find a similarity between his voice and that of Pankaj Mallik. But in late 50s and 60s, he developed his own distinctive style of singing Rabindra Sangeet that distinguished himself from other Rabindra Sangeet Singers.

Born: 16 June 1920, Varanasi, Benares State (now in Uttar Pradesh, India)
Died: 26 September 1989 (aged 69), Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Years active: 1935–1989

Rabindra Sangeet by Hemonto

* Aar Naire Bela / আর নাই রে বেলা
* Je Raate Mor Duar Guli / যে রাতে মোর দুয়ারগুলি
* Timiro Obogunthone / তিমির-অবগুণ্ঠনে
* Tui Phele Eshechhish Kaare / তুই ফেলে এসেছিস কারে
* Tumi Ki Keboli Chhobi / তুমি কি কেবলই ছবি


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