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      • In 1902, Gaisberg made the first disc recording of Indian artistes. The singer Gauhar Jan of Kolkata was the first Indian and Bengali artist to have her songs recorded, gaining immediate celebrity.
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  3. caravanmagazine.in › lede › shoshimukhis-songIn search of the first voice recorded in India | The Caravan

    Jun 1, 2013 · “The first recorded content was a Bengali song, ‘Ami ki shojoni kusumeri’ (Is my beloved a flower),” Majumdar said. Gaisberg hadn’t been impressed with the voices of Shoshimukhi or Fani Bala, the other singer he recorded in his first session on 8 November.

  4. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Music_of_BengalMusic of Bengal - Wikipedia

    Bengali music (Bengali: বাংলা সংগীত) comprises a long tradition of religious and secular song-writing over a period of almost a millennium. Composed with lyrics in the Bengali language, Bengali music spans a wide variety of styles.

  5. indianexpress.com › article › lifestyleA Voice from Long Ago: Sashimukhi, not Gauhar Jaan, was the ...

    Aug 4, 2015 · On the day she sang the song, Sashimukhi was a 14-year-old unlettered girl from Calcutta’s Chitpur district, and she’d never seen a recording device before. It was Saturday, November 8, 1902 and little could she have known that hers would be the first voice to be recorded on a gramophone in India.

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  6. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Hemant_KumarHemant Kumar - Wikipedia

    Hemanta's first film song was in the Bengali film Rajkumarer Nirbbasan released in 1940 which was scored by S.D. Burman. This was followed by Nimai Sanyas in 1941, in which music was scored by Hariprasanna Das.

    Year
    Film
    Song
    Composer(s)
    1943
    Priyo Bandhabi
    "Pather Shesh Kothay"
    Pranab Dey
    1947
    Mondir
    "Gohon Rater Ekla Pothik"
    Subal Dasgupta
    1955
    Shap Mochan
    "Surer Akashe Tumi"
    Hemanta Mukherjee
    1955
    Shap Mochan
    "Bose Achhi Path Cheye"
    Hemanta Mukherjee

    See full list on en.wikipedia.org

  7. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Asha_BhosleAsha Bhosle - Wikipedia

    Asha Bhosle sang her first Bengali song in 1958 under the banner of HMV. The songs were duets with Binod Chattopadhyay and composed by Manna Dey. The following year, she recorded her first "Pooja Songs" from HMV with music arranged by Dey again. She sang many pooja songs in Bengali.

  8. www.telegraphindia.com › my-kolkata › lifestyleMusic | Bengali songs from Usha Uthup, Anjan Dutt, Nachiketa ...

    Feb 1, 2022 · The first song in the list is Kolkata kebal bhule bhara from the 1962 Bengali film Dadathakur, sung by Debabrata Biswas. It was written by Sarat Chandra Pandit, popularly known as Dada Thakur, who was a master of humorous rhymes. Born in 1879, the social critic published the newspaper Jangipore Sangbad on his own.

  9. en.banglapedia.org › index › GramophoneGramophone - Banglapedia

    The singer Gauhar Jan of Kolkata was the first Indian and Bengali artist to have her songs recorded, gaining immediate celebrity. Her photographs appeared on the front pages of all Kolkata newspapers.