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KOLKATA RADIO--Akashbani Kolkata Kolkata Board || Bengali Message Board || Kolkata Music Blog || Kolkata Photogallery || Kolkata Information  Sumon Chattopadhay
Sumon is one of the leading singers of Bengal for almost a decade. Suman Chattapadhyaya (born 1950), also known as Suman Chatterjee (Bangla: সুমন চট্টোপাধ্যায়), is a Kolkata-based modern Bengali singer-songwriter, guitarist, and poet. He changed his name to Kabir Suman in the early 2000s, after marrying the Bangladeshi singer Sabina Yasmin and embracing Islam. He shot to fame in the 1990s with albums such as Tomake Chai (I Want You) and Base Anko (Sit-and-Draw Contest). His contemporary urban, socially consicous songs draw upon both Bengali adhunik and Western folk and protest music. His work has been a major influence in the development of the Bengali Jeebonmukhi Gaan ("Songs from Life") genre, which has influenced bands like Chandrabindoo, and has grown to become a major movement in contemporary Bengali music. Most of his songs are played with a synthesiser. Like many Bengali singers, Suman has also recorded albums of Rabindra Sangeet (Songs of Rabindranath), starting in the late-1990s. Suman's primary training was in Indian classical music and Rabindra Sangeet, and he picked up Western folk forms while living abroad. From 1975 to 1989 he worked as a broadcast journalist working overseas, living in Germany, where he worked for German International Radio, and in the United States, where he worked for Voice of America's Bengali language service. He finished his second contract with German International Radio in 1989, and returned to Kolkata. He released his first album, Tomake Chai, in 1992. Since then he has released over ten albums, his most recent one being Dekhchhi Tokey in 2005. Discography
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