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Though he is famous as Gabu, his nick name, the full name of this famous drummer from the reputed Kolkata Bengali Band LAKKHICHARA is Gaurab Chatterjee. Gabu is also a background score composer and music director of Kolkata Tollywood Bengali movies including KAGOJER BOU and NECKLACE (2010). Subhomoy Mukherjee of Washington Bangla Radio talks to Gaurav in this informal and intimate interview. Somnath Dasgupta (complete WBRi Feature) of Ami Budhin Bolchi fame also appears in this interview.

NINA RAHMAN has a wonderful sweet voice as you will hear in the player and sings great Bengali modern as well as Rabindra Sangeet.

Born in Barisal, Bangladesh, Nina now lives in California, USA with her husband Dr. Mizanur Rahman and two beautiful children - one son and one daughter.

Read all about Nina and listen to the full audio songs from her album Taray Taray exclusively on Washington Bangla Radio.

Feb 17, 2010 (Washington Bangla Radio) Born in Chinsura, Hooghly in the state of West Bengal, Banashree Sengupta was initially trained by her father - classical vocalist Sailendranath Roy. She later took singing lessons from Rajen Bannerjee.

Banasree moved to Kolkata after marrying Santi Sengupta, and was tutored and mentored by the legendary bengali music director Sudhin Dasgupta for almost two decades. Banasree also learnt music of various genres from Sarbashri Prabir Majumdar, Neeta Sen, Sagiruddin Khan, Usha Ranja Mukherjee, Sailen Banerjee, Dinendra Chowdhury, Santosh Sengupta, and Kamal Ganguly.

From a very early age, Banasree is a senior artist of All India Radio (Akashbani) and the pseudo-government controlled Indian Television Broadcast house "Doordarshan". Banasree is contracted with HMV - now Saregama Plc. - since 1966.

Listen to free previews of the following songs by Banasree Sengupta and download them in MP3 format »

Rakhi Dutta is one amongst the young talented singers of Bengali Music Industry whom we can recon for versatility. She is very regular on Stage, All India Radio and Doordarshan.

Started her musical career under guidance of Eminent gurus like Shri Jatileswar Mukhopadhyay and Shri Kalyan Sen Barat, she has taken special talim from Shri Chandan Roy Chowdhury, Devjit, Shri Sudhir Dutta. She is a famous playback singer and we can listen her at Television Programs like Madhu Gandh Vara -  DD BANGLA [MON-FRI 6.30 PM]

Shankar Bhattacharya, born in Burnpur at the IISCO managed Burnpur Hospital, is the youngest of four children. His three elder sisters are married. Shankar's father has retired from IISCO. His mother, the sweetest person of his family, unfortunately passed away in 2006. Shankar currently lives with his father in Vaishno Tower in Burnpur.

Shankar founded the Bengali Rock Band named GaanDHaar. The band's compositions are cross-genre, including soft-rock, folk-rock and fusion music. GaanDHaar are: Saikat, Souvik, Ranjan, Avijit & Shankar. Shankar writes songs and composes music for GaanDhaar - his guiter helps him do so.He expresses his feelings ofsorrow, happiness and encouragement with his songs.

Listen to Shankar's music, and watch music videos of his songs.