Her authority can be understood from the fact that she even guided Sailajaranjan(1901-1992), a famous early teacher of Rabindra sangeet. Learned songs from both Rabindranath and Dinendranath. Not to be confused with another Amita Sen, economist Amatya Sen's mother. Tagore plans failed as she died young at the age of 32. She was not only a good singer but she was proficient in writing notation for Tagore songs and wrote notation for a few of his songs. (Some say partly because of this) She was married to Surendranath Kar, painter and architect and another close aid of Tagore in Shantiniketan. Tagore was keen on keeping her in Shantiniketan and succeed Dinendranath. while studying in Shantiniketan she had shown exception talent for music. Nick named Nutu, was sister of Satonsh Chandra, a close aid of Tagore. Interesting trivia: Once learned a number of Tagore songs from Dinu Thakur over telephone! She moved permanently to Pondichery Aurobindo Ashram in late 20's. Dilip Kumar Roy was a major influence in her life. Niece of Deshbandhu Chittaranjan Das, she was perhaps the most favorite of Tagore as singer of his songs. Listen to his recordings from youtube Quality is relatively better as these are 1920's recordings. But he is best known as custodian and notation writer of Tagore songs. He was a multifaceted talent - singer, music teacher, actor, director writer. Interestingly her records used to bear her name as Miss Das (Amateur) because of the social stigma prevalent at that period.Īlso known as Dinu Thakur, he was grandson of Dwijendranath (Rabindranath's eldest brother). chiroshokha he cheRona) were later used for preparing notation. She was very close to Tagore's family and learned songs from Tagore. Sister of Deshbandhu Chittaranjan Das, she was one of the first singers to record Tagore song. Same applies for Santidev Ghosh or Kalim Sarafi (at least in Bangladesh). The quartet Debabrata, Hemanta, Suchitra and Kanika are not unsung but any standard. Starting from Amala Das (1877 born) l have reached Kanika Bandopadhyay, Suchitra Mitra, Kalim Sarafi (all 1924 born). So this is like a live document which will be added with more singers and correct existing mistakes. In fact I myself came to know many of them while doing the research, mostly from the internet. In fact most of us do not even know the name some of the yesteryear singers. But usually albums of Tagore song do not carry such write ups. In Indian classical music we usually get to know the singer/instrumentalist though a brief write up on them on album cover. I feel we know very little about the singers of Tagore songs.
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