Bengali songs

Bengali songs

Music is an obsession with the Bengalis, who express their emotions, sentiments and spiritual experience in songs. The beautiful villages ,the open spaces, the winding rivers have inspired rural composers to compose and sing songs of their joys and sorrows to the tune of the bamboo flute and the ektara which is the one-stringed instrument Bengali music has a distinctive feel to it and portrays the culture and the traditions of the people of Bengal.

The state of West Bengal is extremely famous for its folk songs, which showcase the culture and traditions of the Bengali people. An extraordinary tradition of the Bangla folk music is the baul tradition. Bauls are the folk singers of rural Bengal, who stroll from village to village singing their songs and their livelihood primarily depends upon common people's support.

In addition to folk music, people of Bengal are closely associated with Rabindra Sangeet, which shows a fusion of western and Indian classical music traditions. Rising film industry in the state is also helping in popularizing film songs as well as other forms of music. Films have always been very musical like any other Indian Movies in other languages .Though the Bengali films releasing every week is less in the number than the Hindi and Tamil films, the songs are quite popular among audiences.

There are great lyricist, music directors and singers in Kolkata such as Manna Dey, Hemanta Mukherjee, Shyamal Mitra, Manabendra, Sandhya Mukherjee, Arati Mukherjee, Lata Mangeshkar, Salil Chowdhury, Sudhin Dasgupta and many more great Singers & Music Composers are from Bengal like Kishor Kumar, Hemant Kumar, R.D. Burman, S.D. Burman etc.The Bengali version of the Hindi films achieved immense popularity among Bengalis and featured many memorable songs by Kishore Kumar Musicdownloads.in is a rich source of lots of MP3, downloadable songs that can be accessed easily anytime and anywhere over the internet.

Shyamal Mitra

Manna Dey

Salil Chowdhury