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Paban Das Baul

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DOB : 1961
Gender : Male

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Paban Das Baul was born in 1961. He is a noted Baul singer and musician from India who also plays a dubki, a small tambourine, and sometimes an ektara as an accompaniment. Paban Das Baul is known for pioneering traditional Baul music on the international music scene and for establishing a genre of folk-fusion music. Paban Das Baul was born in Mohammadpur, a small village in the Murshidabad district of West Bengal, where his early musical influences were his father and wandering Baul singers.

In 1988, Paban Das Baul started cooperating with Sam Mills, a London-born guitarist who had executed with the experimental, avant-garde group 23 Skidoo between 1979 and 1982. Their collaboration resulted in the acclaimed album Real Sugar (1997), a Peter Gabriel's Real-World Records release. It marked one of the first fusions of Bengali music and Western pop music. The album features psychedelic elements and has been compared to the work of artists such as George Harrison, Ananda Shankar Ananda Shankar is an Indian musician, singer, and >> Read More... , and The Bombay Royale.

Paban Das Baul has also collaborated with the London-based State of Bengal and Susheela Raman Susheela Raman is a well-known British- Indian sin >> Read More... . In 2005, the Baul ritual was included in the Index of Masterpieces of the Vocal and Invisible Tradition of Mankind by UNESCO. He also performed at the Jaipur Literature Festival and the Nine Lives Concert, 2009 in London of William Dalrymple. He met Mimlu as a concert audience in 1982 in Paris, they later married and lived in Paris for many years.

Paban Das Baul has taught himself to read not just Bengali, but Hindi, English, and French. The wealthy and famous musical heritage of India's Bengali section is given the latest insight by Paban Das Baul, a genius of the dubki (a small tambourine) and a mesmerizing vocal. Mesmerizing spiritual Buddhism, Baishnavism, and Sufism, Paban Das Baul has gained worldwide attention for his trance-inspiring performances. Paban Das Baul inherited his musical interests from his father, a martial arts champion who turned to singing and wrestling for money after losing his land holdings.

Playing the dubki from age five, Paban Das Baul was trained by Sufi fakirs. At age 14, Paban Das Baul was introduced by Subal Das Baul into the Bauls, a religious category he met on one of the occasions. Their collaboration marked one of the first fusions of Bengali music and Western pop music. Paban Das Baul's 1997 album, Inner Knowledge, was recorded before a small audience at the Real-World Studios.