Shyamal Mitra was an Indian versatile playback singer and music director along with Hemanta Mukherjee and Manna Dey.
17 Facts About Shyamal Mitra
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Shyamal Mitra was the most notable musician of the golden era of Bengali music industry.
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Shyamal Mitra sang in various other Indian languages, like Hindi, Assamese, and Oriya.
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Shyamal Mitra was born in a Bengali Kayastha family in Naihati, a city near Kolkata, India.
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Shyamal Mitra went to Hooghly Mohsin College, then affiliated with the University of Calcutta, for his graduate degree.
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Shyamal Mitra started struggling until he got a chance to playback in "Sunandar Biye" with Supriti Ghosh and Pratima Bandyopadhyay in 1949 and recorded his first basic songs from His Master's Voice under the supervision of Sudhirlal Chakraborty.
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Shyamal Mitra became one of the leading singers and composers of the country.
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Shyamal Mitra started working as a singer and music composer for the Bengali music industry.
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Shyamal Mitra was the distributor and producer of Garh Nasimpur.
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Shyamal Mitra went to Mumbai in the early fifties with Salil Chowdhury.
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Shyamal Mitra worked in three films: Musafer, Biraj Bou, and Naukri.
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Shyamal Mitra worked in Shakti Samanta's films, like Amanush, Anand Ashram, FC Mehra's film Bandi, Basu Chatterjee's films like Safed Jhoot, and Mamta.
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Shyamal Mitra came back to Kolkata again and created many hit tracks in both Bengali basic and film songs.
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Shyamal Mitra had a long association with All India Radio.
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Shyamal Mitra sang in the famous Mahisasura Mardini programme of All India Radio.
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Besides modern Bengali songs and film songs, Shyamal Mitra worked with many other different forms of Bengali music like Rabindrasangeet, Nazrul Geeti, "Chotoder Gaan", and Atul Prasadi.
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Shyamal Mitra died on 15 November 1987, leaving behind his wife Protima Mitra, son Saibal Mitra and Saikat Mitra and daughter Monobina.