Birth name Santosh Thakur Occupation(s) Singer/Organizer Labels Hindustan Records Genre Rabindra Sangeet | Genres Rabindrasangeet Years active 1958–2000 Died 13 January 2000, Kolkata Record label TIPS Music | |
Born 17 September 1920
Kolkata, Bengal Presidency, British India ( 1920-09-17 ) Albums Maal Distoy Taka Tak, Jinka Chhapar Phadoon Similar Krishna Shinde, Shrikant Narayan, Kanika Banerjee, Suchitra Mitra | ||
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Santosh Thakur (1920–2000) was a Bengali singer from Kolkata, India. He is primarily known as a Rabindrasangeet artist. He was the son of Sanskrit scholar Amareswar Thakur.
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Career
Santosh Thakur made an entry into the world of Rabindrasangeet in the early 1950s. He started taking regular Rabindrasangeet lessons under the tutelage of Sri. Subinoy Roy, Sri. Anadi Dastidar and others. Was a regular Artist of All India Radio, he started performing as a Rabindrasangeet singer at Akashvani, Kolkata. He recorded two Tagore’s songs, "Tomari Jhornatolar Nirjone" and "Amar Nishito Ratero" (1966) with Hindustan Records under the training of his Guru Sri Subinoy Roy.
He founded a musical institution in Kolkata named 'Gandharvi' in the year 1963 , where students learned Rabindrasangeet under his training also under the tutelage of Sri. Subinoy Roy, Smt. Sumitra Sen Smt. Bani Thakur Smt. Swapna Ghoshal . 'Gandharvi' was a popular institution and was also known for its regular performance of various concerts and Dance Dramas of Tagore.
Songs
Jinka Chhapar Phadoon - Part 1
Maal Distoy Taka Tak
Jinka Chhapar Phadoon - Part 2