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It is a pleasure to introduce to the world music lovers the rarest talents of Bengal:

Saurav Moni is an ethnic folk singer and sings traditional songs of riverine bengal. Featured on Coke studio India & the elite Filmfare Award ceremony 2012, Saurav, hailing from Hingalganj of Sunderbans in Indo-Bangladesh border is a self learned folk singer dedicated to the rustic singing style,archiving and researching on the rare folk art on the verge of extinction. Saurav refuses to be labeled solely as a singer. In his words:" I am a storyteller;I narrate the bygone tales of the lost songs and pay my tribute to the rivers of bengal delta "

Saurav has been constantly delving in the divines of musical trove that has been in vogue in the villages of southern Bengal and Bangladesh. In his performance he shares the musical story of the boat journey from northern Bengal to the extreme south. He demonstrates the tempo of the songs in sync with the flow of the river: the tempo rises as the river quickens. His songs converges with the various streams of genres, lifestyles and faith to an ultimate musical confluence. His relentless research on the journey of the songs egged him to embark on an interesting journey shortly afterwards, forming a band of travelling boatmen, the Majhi Mallah.



Madhabi Dutta is a prolific Rabindra Sangeet singer, a worthy disciple of the legendary Rabindra Sangeet maestro,late Kanika Bandhopadhyay. She had been under the tutelage of noteworthy singers like Late Nilima Sen, Sri Mohan Singh & Sri Aloke Chattopadhyay in Sangeet Bhavan (Shantiniketan).Madhabi Dutta is indebted to Sri Dwijen Mukhopadhyay & Sri Subhas Choudhury for imbibing the finesse of Rabindrasangeet genre.

Madhabi Dutta as a student stood 1st in B.Mus & M.Mus from Visba Bharati University. She is a B-High Grade qualified from AIR in Rabindra Sangeet (1997) and has been conferred the Debobrata Award from Sound Wing Co. in the year 1991. She has earned her reputation in the rabindrasangeet fraternity for her gifted renditions of Tagore's delicate and rare songs. Madhabi Dutta has aways been a humble and dedicated person,and as a performer she is one of the rare talents, a worthy successor of the kanika Bandhopadhyay legacy.

She has enamoured her audience copiously in prestigious government functions, television channels viz. Dooradarshan, ETV Bangla, Tara Music, Akash Bangla, AIR, and Rabindrasangeet soirees throughout India. She has first featured in the rabindra sangeet VCD "Chokher Aaloy Dekhechilem" a collaborative project by India Govt.,Visba Bharati & Shantiniketan from Concord Records in 2004 where her song was appreciated. Madhabi Dutta's first solo venture in Rabindra Sangeet cassette in the year 2005 has been "Sakal Sanjhe" from Ananyo Music production which received rave reviews from rabindra sangeet followers as well as from the critics. Recently she has released her Rabindra sangeet album " Ke Bosile Aji" from Bhavna Records & Cassetes which has been highly acclaimed for the eclectic choice of rare and select pieces of Tagore's immortal creation.

Pratayaysur (talk) 06:48, 22 February 2012 (UTC)