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Basudeb Das Baul

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Basudeb Das Baul is a Bengali baul singer and musician from Bolpur in Birbhum district, West Bengal, India. He also plays khaman, ektara, and dotara as an accompaniment. He is known for pioneering traditional Baul music on the international music scene. He also worked on the music score for the Australian film The Waiting City as a featured soloist in 2009. A critically acclaimed Bangladeshi movie, Hawa also featured one of his celebrated songs, Atta babes deri koris na, in his voice.

Early life Basudeb grew up in a village twenty-five kilometers away from Santiniketan, West Bengal, India. However, he spent most of the time of his life at Santiniketan. Basudeb became friends with several singers, including Shanti Deb Ghosh, Prabhat Mukherjee Prabhat Mukherjee, born in 1917, was an Indian fil >> Read More... , and Paban Das Baul Paban Das Baul was born in 1961. He is a noted Bau >> Read More... . He started singing folk songs at the age of thirteen. Basudeb took Baul lessons from mentors like Swapan Chatterjee, Dinanath Das Baul, Naran Das, Baka Sham Das, and Bishwanath Das. He collaborated with the Kolkata Jazz Festival in 2004 with Tanmoy Bose.

He also performed at the Dhaka International Folk Fest Concert, 2017 in Dhaka, Bangladesh. In 2009, Basudeb's debut solo studio album, Aat Kuthuri Noy Doroja, was released by Folk Pick. Basudeb is married and lives in Birbhum. He has a daughter named Anita and a son named Bhola. The word Baul is derived from the Sanskrit visual, which means mad, confused, or procured. Baul also explains a society of songs that was invented in West Bengal. The Baul society is all traveling.

Bauls have a syncretic faith that sketches from Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism, and they live combined with different people. Rejecting the conventional standard of the nation, they approve of the song as the united force. Their music declares a direct knowledge of life. Bauls are not born into the society. They want this path of life and are motivated by a guru. Bauls – both men and women – are different, with clear cut, curled hair or twisted hair, saffron wrap or sarees, rudraksha necklaces, and taking a single thread ektara.

The vocal assumed song left, until today, their only origin of nutrition, and they continue on gifts accepted in restore for singing their songs. Every year, two critical fairs for Baul song are held in the Birbhum district of West Bengal – the Kali Mela in Joydev-Kenduli village in mid-January & the Pous Mela in the Santiniketan area of Bolpur town in December. These fairs match Bauls from distant areas. The Bauls also act at different other smaller fairs.