10 May 2014, 05:30 am
To Mark Rabindra Jayanti
Programme Type
Cultural
Rabindra Sangeet
Saikat Mitra started off his career in music by performing songs originally sung by his father Shri Shyamal Mitra. He started singing in 1983 and surprised stalwarts like Dhananjoy Bhattacharya, Hemanta Mukherjee and Suprava Sarkar by demonstrating his singing talent. In 1984 he started singing playback for his father’s composition with Bangla movie Kenaram Becharam.
Saikat sang for Sound Wing, HMV (Now SaReGaMa) and now his own company Gold Disc. He has performed compositions of many great music directors including Salil Chowdhury, Hemanta Mukherjee, Bhupen Hazarika, Ajay Das, Anal Chatterjee etc. Saikat published many popular albums featuring adhunik Bangla songs as well as cover versions of old nostalgic numbers including Hemanta Shraddhanjali and Shyamal Shraddhanjali. Saikat continues as a successful singer composer of modern popular and Bengali film songs.
Saikat Mitra started off his career in music by performing songs originally sung by his father Shri Shyamal Mitra. He started singing in 1983 and surprised stalwarts like Dhananjoy Bhattacharya, Hemanta Mukherjee and Suprava Sarkar by demonstrating his singing talent. In 1984 he started singing playback for his father’s composition with Bangla movie Kenaram Becharam.
Saikat sang for Sound Wing, HMV (Now SaReGaMa) and now his own company Gold Disc. He has performed compositions of many great music directors including Salil Chowdhury, Hemanta Mukherjee, Bhupen Hazarika, Ajay Das, Anal Chatterjee etc. Saikat published many popular albums featuring adhunik Bangla songs as well as cover versions of old nostalgic numbers including Hemanta Shraddhanjali and Shyamal Shraddhanjali. Saikat continues as a successful singer composer of modern popular and Bengali film songs.
