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Artist
Ramdew Chaitoe
12+ albums
Baithak Ganasurinamese
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Ramdew Chaitoe (19 December 1942 - 6 June 1994) was a Surinamese artist and a harmonium player, who released a Baithak Gana album called The King Of Suriname a.k.a The Star Melodies of Ramdew Chaitoe in 1976. Rumors exist about how Chaitoe started his career singing in jail after being arrested in a bar fight. Ramdew grew up on a farm. His father, songwriter/lyricist and harmonium instrumentalist Pundit Shastrie Sewpersad Chaitoe, was a considerable influence on Ramdew, inaugurating his son early in the musical art form, by having him perform weekly at Hindu temple ceremonies. This allowed the young Chaitoe to become skilled at his craft, thus allowing him to perform with the top singers and composers in Suriname as he matured. Throughout his travels in the Caribbean, Chaitoe acquired a strong reputation as a skilled harmonium player and singer. Ramdew Chaitoe traveled from the West Indies to Europe, and also had a show in New York. In 1976, Chaitoe released The King Of Suriname a.k.a The Star Melodies of Ramdew Chaitoe. This album is considered to be the first Baithak Gana album ever in Suriname. Moreover, due to the exposure that he received from this album, Chaitoe became a household name not just in Suriname but in the Indo-Caribbean world as well. In the popular manner of composition at the time, Chaitoe composed this album with religious and folk songs from the Purvanchal-Bhojpur, and Awadh regions of the present-day states of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar in India. These s
top songs
albums
The Best of Ramdew Chaitoe
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The King Of Suriname Volume 2
The Star Melodies Of Ramdew Chaitoe
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Baithak Gana: An Indo-Surinamese Mixtape, ca. 1968-80
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Album
Melodies to Remember
Melodies Of Ramdew Chaitoe
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the legend
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the king of suriname, vol. 1
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Ramdew Chaitoe
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Ramdew Chaitoe Sings Bhajans_Vol. 6
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The King Of Suriname Vol 2, The Best In Europe And America