Debabrata Biswas, was an Indian Rabindra Sangeet singer.
15 Facts About Debabrata Biswas
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Debabrata Biswas was popularly called George Biswas and George Da.
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Debabrata Biswas' music was notable for its exceptional depth of emotional expression combined with an exploration of the subtle dramatic element in Tagore's lyrics.
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Debabrata Biswas is the only singer who sang Rabindra Sangeet in Sanskrit, English, German, French, and Russian.
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Debabrata Biswas got trained at Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Kolkata for learning the rudiments of foreign languages.
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Debabrata Biswas was actively engaged with IPTA group for a long period.
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Debabrata Biswas sang a few songs set to music by Salil Choudhury, Hemanga Biswas, Jyotirindra Moitra and recorded songs during the liberation movement of Bangladesh.
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Kazi Nazrul Islam himself was the trainer when Debabrata Biswas recorded songs by Nazrul.
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Debabrata Biswas challenged the sensibilities of Tagore song listeners with the use of the Spanish guitar, the saxophone, the clarinet, the piano and the cello along with the sitar, the sarod, the esraj and the violin; and all this in the name of 'interpretation' and 'freedom of expression'.
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Debabrata Biswas remains one of the towering personalities of the peak era of Indian People's Theatre Association, as a cultural delegate of which he visited China twice in the early 1950s with other great cultural luminaries from India.
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Debabrata Biswas recorded his experiences with China in a well-written but somewhat simplistic and naive book titled Antaranga Chin or China of My Heart.
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Debabrata Biswas lent his voice to a number of films and after his death was the subject of a documentary film by his name, based on archival footage and interviews.
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Debabrata Biswas's legacy: Debabrata Biswas's younger sister, Lalita Biswas was an accomplished singer with very similar vocal qualities and a strong theatrical personality with IPTA.
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Debabrata Biswas did not pursue music professionally but more as a passion project.
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Debabrata Biswas was survived by his wife and two daughters.