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Suchitra Mitra & Arghya Sen
2+ albums
Rabindra sangeetindian classicalbengali
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Suchitra Mitra is an Indian singer-composer, and a well respected exponent of Rabindra Sangeet or the songs of Bengal's poet laureate Rabindranath Tagore. As an academic she remained a Professor and the Head of 'Rabindra Sangeet Department' at the Rabindra Bharati University for many years. She has also done playback singing and acted in a few films as well [1], and for many years remained associated with IPTA She studied at the Scottish Church College , the University of Calcutta and at Visva-Bharati University in West Bengal, India. Early life Her father, the celebrated littérateur, Saurindra Mohan Mukherjee, was a close associate of the Tagore family of Jorasanko. Suchitra Mitra's natural aptitude in music was recognized by Pankaj Mullick, who gave her, her first lesson in Rabindra Sangeet. From her childhood as the youngest member of her family, Suchitra cultivated her love for the songs and poetry of Tagore. She had an unerring ear for music and had a natural gift of voice and expression. Musical career In 1941, Suchitra Mitra received a scholarship to Sangeet Bhavan in Santiniketan, where she had the rare privilege of learning from some of the greatest exponents of Rabindra Sangeet - Indiradevi Chaudhurani, Shantidev Ghosh and Shailajaranjan Mazumdar. Having obtained her Diploma from Santiniketan, Suchitra Mitra returned to Calcutta in 1945. An in 1946, she received her Master's degree in Bengali from Scottish Church College, Calcutta, University of Calcutta. In th
