Bubu Eklund

Bubu Eklund (née Munshi, born: 11 March 1951) is a Bengali singer and exponent of Rabindra Sangeet based in Lund, Sweden where she leads the Lund India Choir through which she plays a significant role in the spread of Rabindra Sangeet and the ideologies of Rabindranath Tagore in Sweden. She has been a student of legendary Rabindra Sangeet exponents Suchitra Mitra and Kanika Bandopadhyay while attending the Rabitirtha Institute in Kolkata, India. She is the daughter of noted Indian painter and commercial artist Annada Munshi and Jayati Devi, the first Bengali lady to appear as the model in any advertising venture of the Tea Board in India. Her major breakthrough was the series of concerts titled A Swedish View of Rabindranath Tagore, along with Per Olov Henricson. Eklund started the International Tagore Choir in Lund with her husband Lars Eklund in 2011, where Swedish people are trained to sing Rabindra Sangeet. She lives in Lund, Sweden from 1983 with her husband Lars Eklund.

Major performances

 * Performance in Lund Cathedral to commemorate Mother Teresa after her demise in 1997
 * Performance at the Nobel Prize Museum at Stockholm in 2002 in the presence of Chitra Narayanan, the former Ambassador of India to Sweden
 * The Lund concert on the occasion of Tagore's 150th Birth Anniversary in 2011
 * Performance in Uppsala University on the occasion of Tagore's 150th Birth Anniversary in 2011 in the presence of AFM Gousal Azam Sarker, Former Ambassador of Bangladesh to Sweden and Ashok Sajjanhar, Former Ambassador of India to Sweden
 * The India Tour in 2013: Performances in Star Theatre, Kolkata, Sangit Bhavana of Visva-Bharati University, Shakuntala Rheumatology Hospital and Research Institute in Balasore, North Orissa University and IIT Kharagpur.
 * The Stockholm concert in 2014 on the celebration of 100 years of Tagore's Nobel Prize winning
 * The Bangladesh Tour in 2023