Kolkata, Sep 11 (UNI) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday

remembered folk singer and researcher Kalika Prasad Bhattacharya on his birth

anniversary

“Remembering folk singer & researcher Kalika Prasad Bhattacharya on his birth

anniversary,” Ms Banerjee posted on her social networking page.

Born on this day in 1970 at Silchar, Assam, he co-founded the band Dohar with

the intent to revive the folk music tradition of Northern and Eastern Bengal.

Bhattacharya contributed music to a number of movies. He was associated with

the popular Zee Bangla Sa Re Ga Ma Pa, a renowned Bengali music reality show.

The artist, in his late 40s, was a well known voice in eastern India. He collected

songs and variety of rendition from parts of Bangladesh, Barak Valley in Assam

and West Bengal since his college days and later put them together in various

albums that he and his band – Dohar – of folk music produced over last two

decades.

Dohar was known for not using any foreign musical instrument. Bhattacharya

himself could play an array of folk instruments with elan.

Bhattacharya has worked in commercially successful Bengali films such as

Jaatishwar (2014), Moner Manush (2010) and Bhuban Majhi (2017).

He received the "Sangeet Samman award” from the government of West Bengal

for his unique creation and musical excellence in 2013.

Bhattacharya received Cultural Ambassador of North East Award From Bytikram

Group, Guwahati in 2013.

He died in a road accident near Gurap village in Hooghly district on March 7. 2017

at the age of 47.

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