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Artist
Antara Chowdhury
12+ albums
indian classicalbollywoodIndian Folk
about
Antara, Salil Chowdhury's and Sabita's ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salil_Chowdhury and http://www.salilda.com/nonfilmsongs/sabita.asp ) elder daughter started singing from an early age. She stunned everybody when she recorded that beautiful song in the film 'Minoo' with Manna Dey....'Teri galiyo.n mei.n hum aayee'. Antara became a household name when Salil composed over 25 children's songs for her. Before Salil, childrens songs were practically unknown in Bengal besides probably some compositions by Anando Shankar Roy.These songs changed that completely and are still extremely popular. In his typical style, Salil composed some wonderful songs such as 'O maago ma' and 'Bul bul paakhi moina tiyee'. These songs, although for children, often raised questions and made sharp comments on the social injustice. Since then Antara has matured into an excellent singer, well trained in Hindusthani classical music and western music. She is also a fine pianist, a talented composer and arranger. She had to struggle hard though to shake off her original image of a singer who only sang 'Childrens songs'. Salil composed some wonderful new songs in the late eighties and nineties experimenting continuously with new styles and new techniques. However, quite a few of these songs did not become popular because they were not marketed properly. One of them is 'Amono saghana barashaay'. Using rich strings and the appropriate Raag he created a wonderful atmosphere of the rain ! The other exceptional
