Basudeb Das Baul

Baul
Basudeb Das
Native name বাসুদেব দাস
Birth name Basudeb Das
Born Bolpur, Birbhum district, West Bengal, India
Origin West Bengal
Genres Baul
Occupation(s) singer
Instruments khamak, ektara, and dotara[1]
Years active ?-present

Basudeb Das Baul (born ?) is a noted Bengali baul singer and musician from Bolpur in Birbhum district, West Bengal, India;[2] who also plays khamak, ektara, and dotara[3] as an accompaniment. He is known for pioneering traditional Baul music on the international music scene. He also works on the music score for the Australian film The Waiting City as a featured soloist in 2009.[4]

Early life

Basudeb was growing up in a village twenty-five kilometers away from Santiniketan, West Bengal, India. Though he spent most of the time of his life at Santiniketan. Where Basudeb became friends with a number of famous singers, including Shanti Deb Ghosh, Prabhat Mukharjee and Paban Das Baul. He started singing folk songs since his age of thirteen.[3]

Basudeb took baul lessons from several mentors like Shwapan Chatterjee, Dinanath Das Baul, Naran Das, Baka Sham Das, and Biswanath Das. He also performed at Dhaka International Folk Fest Concert, 2017 in Dhaka, Bangladesh.[3][5]

Personal life

Basudeb is married and lives in Shantiniketan. He has one daughter.

Discography

Concerts

  • Dhaka International Folk Fest - 2017[3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Md Intaj Ali (February 1, 2018). "The Dotara Project". Café Dissensus. Retrieved 25 September 2018.
  2. ↑ PARI (August 1, 2017). "Basudeb Baul: Singing the ballads of Bengal". People's Archive of Rural India. Retrieved 22 September 2018.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Basudeb Das Baul (November 18, 2017). "Basudeb Das Baul" (Interview). Interviewed by Sanjida Chowdhury. The Daily Star. Retrieved September 22, 2018.
  4. 1 2 "Basu Deb Das Baul". imdb.com. IMDb. Retrieved 22 September 2018.
  5. ↑ "Basudeb Das from India". dhakainternationalfolkfest.com. DIFF. 2017. Retrieved September 22, 2018.
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