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	Bangladeshi rock or Bangla rock originated in Chittagong with roots in 1960s and 1970s rock and roll. Bangladeshi rock music was influenced by the American and British rock and roll music. In the 1960s, blues rock was introduced by Zinga, The Windy Side of Care, The Lightnings, Rambling Stones etc. From early to mid 1970s pop rock music was introduced by Uchcharon, Souls, Feedback and Miles. In the 1980s number of subgenres such as hard rock and heavy metal was introduced. In the 1990s hard rock and heavy metal broke through the mainstream with bands like LRB, Feelings, Ark and Warfaze, Miles, Maqsood O' Dhaka, Souls etc. music of Bangladesh		Bangladeshi rock or Bangla rock originated in Chittagong with roots in 1960s and 1970s rock and roll. Bangladeshi rock music was influenced by the American and British rock and roll music. In the 1960s, blues rock was introduced by [[Zinga Goshty\|Zinga]], The Windy Side of Care, The Lightnings, Rambling Stones etc. From early to mid 1970s pop rock music was introduced by Uchcharon, Souls, Feedback and Miles. In the 1980s number of subgenres such as hard rock and heavy metal was introduced. In the 1990s hard rock and heavy metal broke through the mainstream with bands like LRB, Feelings, Ark and Warfaze, Miles, Maqsood O' Dhaka, Souls etc. music of Bangladesh

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	'''Bengali music''' ({{lang-bn\|বাংলা সংগীত}}) comprises a long tradition of [[religious]] and [[secular]] song-writing over a period of almost a millennium. Composed with lyrics in the [[Bengali language]], Bengali music spans a wide variety of styles.		'''Bengali music''' ({{lang-bn\|বাংলা সংগীত}}) comprises a long tradition of [[religious]] and [[secular]] song-writing over a period of almost a millennium. Composed with lyrics in the [[Bengali language]], Bengali music spans a wide variety of styles.

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	All traditional Bengali music is based on classical music or on its variations. Some of the most reputed classical musicians of the sub-continent come from Bengal including [[Ustad Allauddin Khan]], [[Tarapada Chakraborty]], [[Pandit Jnan Prakash Ghosh]] (1909-1987), Pandit [[Ravi Shankar]], Pandit [[Manas Chakraborty]], Ustad [[Ayet Ali Khan]] and Ustad [[Abed Hossain Khan]].		All traditional Bengali music is based on classical music or on its variations. Some of the most reputed classical musicians of the sub-continent come from Bengal including [[Ustad Allauddin Khan]], [[Tarapada Chakraborty]], [[Pandit Jnan Prakash Ghosh]] (1909-1987), Pandit [[Ravi Shankar]], Pandit [[Manas Chakraborty]], Ustad [[Ayet Ali Khan]] and Ustad [[Abed Hossain Khan]].

	Notable Bengali music composers active in Calcutta ([[Kolkata]]) in the 1930s through the 1980s include [[Himangshu Dutta]], [[Kamal Dasgupta]], [[Rai Chand Boral]], [[Pankaj Kumar Mullick]], [[Anupam Ghatak]], [[Sachin Dev Burman]], [[Rahul Dev Burman]] [[Nachiketa Ghosh]], [[Hemanta Kumar Mukhopadhyay]], [[Salil Chowdhury]], [[Sudhin Dasgupta]], [[Shyamal Mitra]], [[Kabir Suman]] [[Ajoy Das]], and [[Bappi Lahiri]], while [[Pranab Roy]], [[Gouri Prasanna Majumdar]], [[Kabir Suman]] and [[Pulak Bandyopadhyay]] were well-known lyricists. [[Jeet Ganguly]] is a modern music composer of Bengali film songs and [[Bollywood]] songs.		Notable Bengali music composers active in Calcutta ([[Kolkata]]) in the 1930s through the 1980s include [[Himangshu Dutta]], [[Kamal Dasgupta]], [[Rai Chand Boral]], [[Pankaj Kumar Mullick]], [[Anupam Ghatak]], [[Sachin Dev Burman]], [[Rahul Dev Burman]] [[Nachiketa Ghosh]], [[Hemanta Kumar Mukhopadhyay]], [[Salil Chowdhury]], [[Sudhin Dasgupta]], [[Shyamal Mitra]], [[Kabir Suman]],[[Nachiketa Chakraborty]], [[Ajoy Das]], and [[Bappi Lahiri]], while [[Pranab Roy]], [[Gouri Prasanna Majumdar]], [[Kabir Suman]] and [[Pulak Bandyopadhyay]] were well-known lyricists. [[Jeet Ganguly]] is a modern music composer of Bengali film songs and [[Bollywood]] songs.

			Nachiketa Chakraborty continues his established musical career for decades being a multi-dimensional singer, lyricist and composer with extraordinary class and caliber. An artist who has more than 450 released songs created and sung by him, more than 300 unreleased songs of his own, an artist who drives to develop his next generation. It is hard finding his parallel, probably impossible. The boss of Bengali Music revolution in the 90s, the educator honored as Bangabhushan, who ignites the moral value in millions in the society, the philosopher who simplify life’s equations in simple language, the avenger who inspires common people to throw away an age-old rotten ruling system from Bengal.He is an idol for numerous people across the world and has inspired many renowned Bengali singers from time to time. (Editor: Rajonyo Nandi)<ref>aminachiketa.com</ref>

	===Bengali rock===		===Bengali rock===

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'''Bengali music''' ({{lang-bn|বাংলা সংগীত}}) comprises a long tradition of [[religious]] and [[secular]] song-writing over a period of almost a millennium. Composed with lyrics in the [[Bengali language]], Bengali music spans a wide variety of styles.

The [[Bengal region]] of the [[Indian subcontinent]] is currently split between the Indian state of [[West Bengal]] and the country of [[Bangladesh]]. [[West Bengal]] is still referred to as [[Bengal]] in the rest of [[India]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://m.timesofindia.com/city/kolkata/bengal-boy-on-gate-top-5-list/amp_articleshow/74643288.cms|title=Bengal boy on GATE Top-5 list|work=The Times of India}}</ref>

== History ==

The earliest music in Bengal was influenced by [[Sanskrit language|Sanskrit]] chants, and evolved under the influence of [[Vaishnav]] poetry such as the 13th-century ''[[Gitagovindam]]'' by [[Jayadeva]], whose work continues to be sung in many eastern [[Hinduism|Hindu]] temples. The Middle Ages saw a mixture of Hindu and Islamic trends when the musical tradition was formalized under the patronage of [[Sultan and Nawab]]s and the powerful landlords ''[[Baro Bhuiyans|baro bhuiyans]]''.

Much of the early canon is devotional, as in the Hindu devotional songs of [[Ramprasad Sen]] a [[bhakti|bhakta]] who captures the Bengali ethos in his poetic, rustic, and ecstatic vision of the Hindu goddess of time and destruction in her motherly incarnation, Ma [[Kali]]. Another writer of the time was Vidyapati. Notable in this devotional poetry is an earthiness that does not distinguish between love in its carnal and devotional forms; some see connections between this and [[Tantra]], which originated sometime in the middle of the first millennium [[Common Era|CE]].

==Forms==

===Bishnupur Gharana===
{{Main|Bishnupur Gharana}}

The Bishnupur Gharana is the sole Classical (Drupad) gharana of Bengal. It originated in Bishnupur, Bankura by the court musicians of the Malla Kings. Bahadur Khan of Delhi, a descendant of the Tansen, was the father of Bishnupur Gharana. Bahadur Khan was brought to Bishnupur by Malla King Raghunath Singha II.

===Baul===
{{Main|Baul}}

The [[Baul]]s (meaning "divinely inspired insanity") are a group of mystic minstrels (Muslim Sufis and Hindu Baishnos) from the Bengal region, who sang primarily in the 17th and 18th centuries. They are thought to have been influenced greatly by the Hindu tantric sect of the [[Kartabhaja]]s as well as by Muslim [[Sufi]] philosophers. Bauls traveled and sang in search of the internal ideal, ''[[Moner Manush]]'' (''Man of the Heart'' or the ''inner being''), and described "superfluous" differences between religions. [[Lalon Fakir]], alternatively known as Lalon Shah, who lived in the 19th century in and around [[Kushtia]], is considered to be the greatest of all bauls.

===Ramprasadi===
{{Main|Ramprasadi}}
The [[Bengali language|Bengali]] devotional songs written and music composed by eighteenth century [[Bengalis|Bengali]] saint-poet [[Ramprasad Sen]] are called Ramprasadi. They are usually addressed to Hindu goddess [[Kali]].

===Lalon Geeti===
{{Main|Lalon}}
The [[Bengali language|Bengali]] songs composed by [[Bengalis|Bengali]] saint, philosopher, and social reformer [[Lalon]] are called Lalon Geeti.

===Rabindra Sangeet===
{{Main|Rabindra Sangeet}}

The leading proponent of Bengali music is [[Rabindranath Tagore]] (known in Bengali as ''Robi Thakur'' and ''Gurudeb'', the latter meaning "Respected Teacher" (in the Bengal of that time, the suffix 'deb' was an honorific, ascribed to people who enjoyed immense respect, but this title was primarily used by his students at Santiniketan, though many others did use the address/<ref>{{cite book|last1=Devi|first1=Maitreyi|author-link=Maitreyi Devi|title=Na Hanyate|date=May 1983|publisher=Upama Sengupta; Prima Publications|location=Kolkata|pages=1, 23, 59|edition=First Edition, Seventh Reprint}}</ref>) Tagore was a prolific composer with around 2,230 songs to his credit.<ref name="DasguptaGuha2013">{{cite book|author1=Sanjukta Dasgupta|author2=Chinmoy Guha|title=Tagore-At Home in the World|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8zfX4llLjyUC|date=2013|publisher=SAGE Publications|isbn=978-81-321-1084-2|page=254}}</ref> His songs are known as ''[[Rabindra Sangeet|rabindrasangit]]'' ("Tagore Song"), which merges fluidly into his literature, most of which—poems or parts of novels, stories, or plays alike—were lyricised. Influenced by the ''[[thumri]]'' style of [[Hindustani classical music|Hindustani music]], they ran the entire gamut of human emotion, ranging from his early dirge-like Brahmo devotional hymns to quasi-erotic compositions.{{Sfn|Tagore|Dutta |Robinson|1997|p=94}} They emulated the tonal colour of classical ''[[raga]]s'' to varying extents. Some songs mimicked a given raga's melody and rhythm faithfully; others newly blended elements of different ''ragas''.<ref name="dasgupta2001">{{Citation|last=Dasgupta |first=Anirban|publication-date=15 July 2001|year=2001|title=Rabindra-Sangeet as a Resource for Indian Classical ''Bandishes''|periodical=Parabaas|url=http://www.parabaas.com/rabindranath/articles/pAnirban1.html|access-date=17 September 2011}}</ref> Yet about nine-tenths of his work was not ''bhanga gaan'', the body of tunes revamped with "fresh value" from select Western, Hindustani, Bengali folk and other regional flavours "external" to Tagore's own ancestral culture.<ref name="ghosh2011">{{Citation|last=Ghosh |first=Bhaswati|title=Inside the World of Tagore's Music|periodical=Parabaas|publication-date=August 2011|year=2011|url=http://www.parabaas.com/rabindranath/articles/pBhaswati2.html|access-date=17 September 2011}}</ref> His music is an exemplary instance of 'kavya-geeti', a style of composition that later found widespread use in the music industries at Bombay and Calcutta.

In 1971, ''[[Amar Shonar Bangla]]'' became the national anthem of Bangladesh. It was written — ironically — to protest the [[1905 Partition of Bengal]] along communal lines: cutting off the Muslim-majority East Bengal from Hindu-dominated West Bengal was to avert a regional bloodbath. Tagore saw the partition as a cunning plan to stop the [[Indian independence movement|independence movement]], and he aimed to rekindle Bengali unity and tar communalism. ''[[Jana Gana Mana]]'' was written in ''[[shadhu-bhasha]]'', a Sanskritised form of Bengali, and is the first of five stanzas of the Brahmo hymn ''[[Bharot Bhagyo Bidhata]]'' that Tagore composed. It was first sung in 1911 at a Calcutta session of the [[Indian National Congress]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Tagore and Jana Gana Mana|url=http://www.countercurrents.org/comm-chatterjee310803.htm|publisher=countercurrents.org|author=Monish R. Chatterjee|date=13 August 2003}}</ref> and was adopted in 1950 by the Constituent Assembly of the Republic of India as its national anthem.

For Bengalis, the songs' appeal, stemming from the combination of emotive strength and beauty described as surpassing even Tagore's poetry, was such that the ''Modern Review'' observed that "[t]here is in Bengal no cultured home where Rabindranath's songs are not sung or at least attempted to be sung... Even illiterate villagers sing his songs".{{Sfn|Tagore|Dutta|Robinson|1997|p=359}} Tagore influenced ''sitar'' maestro [[Vilayat Khan]] and ''[[sarod]]iyas'' [[Buddhadev Dasgupta]] and [[Amjad Ali Khan]].<ref name="dasgupta2001" />

Most of his musical poems are detailed in two series of books – the ''[[Gitabitan]]'' (that only has the texts of the poems) and the ''Swarabitan'' (that has the poems and their musical notation). However, there exist several poems of his that are set to music, and yet find no mention in either of the above. These are handed down from his students to their students and so on.

Some of the notable exponents of Rabindrasangeet are [[Shantideb Ghosh]], [[Debabrata Biswas]], [[Pankaj Kumar Mullick]], [[Kalim Sharafi]], [[Kanika Bandyopadhyay]], [[Rajeshwari Datta]], [[Malati Ghoshal]], [[Nilima Sen]], [[Suchitra Mitra]], [[Aditi Mohsin]], [[Rezwana Choudhury Bannya]], [[Subinoy Roy]], [[Chinmoy Chattopadhyay|Chinmoy Chatterjee]], [[Hemanta Kumar Mukhopadhyay|Hemanta Mukhopadhyay]], [[Dwijen Mukhopadhyay]], [[Sagar Sen]], [[Santosh Thakur]], [[Purabi Mukhopadhyay]], [[Kabir Suman]], [[Banani Ghosh]], [[Mita Haque]], [[Indrani Sen]], [[Srikanto Acharya]], [[Shreya Guhathakurta]] [[Sahana Bajpaie]] [[Mohan Singh]] and [[Dr Debaleena Bhowmik]].

===Nazrul Geeti===
{{Main|Nazrul Geeti}}

Another influential body of work is that of [[Kazi Nazrul Islam]], which constitutes what is known as [[Complete Works of Kazi Nazrul Islam|Nazrul geeti]]. Some of the notable Nazrulgeeti singers from India include Suprova Sircar, Dhirendra Chandra Mitra, [[Manabendra Mukhopadhyay]], Dr. Anjali Mukhopadhyay, Dhiren Bose, Adhir Bagchi, Purabi Dutta, [[Firoza Begum (singer)|Firoza Begum]], [[Anup Ghoshal]], and, Bangladeshi singer [[Sohrab Hossain]].

===Shyama Sangeet===
{{Main|Shyama Sangeet}}

Shyama Sangeet is a genre of Bengali devotional songs dedicated to the Hindu goddess Shyama or [[Kali]] which is a form of supreme universal mother-goddess Durga or parvati. It is also known as Shaktagiti or Durgastuti. Shyama Sangeet appeals to the common man because it is a musical representation of the relationship of eternal and sublime love and care between the mother and her child. It is free of the common rituals of worship and also the esoteric practice of the Tantra. A notable singer is [[Pannalal Bhattacharya]].

===Dwijendrageeti===
{{Main|Dwijendralal Ray}}

Dwijendralal Ray's Dwijendrageeti (the Songs of Dwijendralal), which number over 500, create a separate subgenre of Bengali music. Two of Dwijendralal Ray's most famous compositions are Dhana Dhanya Pushpa Bhara and Banga Amar Janani Amar. Ray is regarded as one of the most important figures in early modern Bengali literature.

===Atulprasadi===
{{Main|Atul Prasad Sen}}

Atulprasadi, one of the major lyricist and composers of early-modern period, is also widely popular
in Paschimbanga. Atul Prasad is credited with introducing the Thumri style in Bengali music. His songs centred on three broad subjects: patriotism, devotion and love.

===Prabhat Samgiita===
{{Main|Prabhat Samgiita}}

Prabhát Saḿgiita also known as Songs of a New Dawn and Prabhat Songs, are songs composed by Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar. Sarkar composed a total of 5,018 songs including the lyrics and the tune, in a period of eight years from 1982 until his death in 1990, making using of eight different languages: Bengali, Hindi, English, Sanskrit, Urdu, Magahi, Maithili and Angika.

===Other===

*[[Bhatiali]]
*[[Qwali]]
*[[Bhawaiya]]
*[[Dhamail]]
*[[Gombhira]]
*[[Kavigan]], poems sung with simple music usually presented on stage as a musical battle between poets.
*[[Jatra (Bengal)|Jatra]] Pala, songs associated exclusively with plays (performed on-stage). Usually involves colourful presentations of historical themes.

Numerous other poets and composers had laid the foundation for the rich repertoire of Bengali music in the 19th century and early 20th century. Some stalwarts of this ear include Ramnidhi Gupta (commonly known as [[Nidhu Babu]]), [[Lalon Fakir]], [[Atulprasad Sen]], [[Dwijendralal Ray]], [[Rajanikanta Sen]] and a large canon of patriotic songs from India's Independence movement.<ref name="ch">Chatterjee, Gita. ''Bengal's Swadeshi Samgīt.'' Published in Banerjee, Jayasri (ed.), ''The Music of Bengal''. Baroda: Indian Musicological Society, 1987.</ref>

==Modern Bengali music==
Modern Bengali music has been enriched by Indian singers like [[Jagmohan Sursagar|Jaganmoy Mitra]] (1918-2003) (who is considered a pioneer of modern song), as well as artists such as [[Hemanta Kumar Mukhopadhyay]], [[Manabendra Mukhopadhyay]], [[Sandhya Mukhopadhyay]], [[Manna Dey]], [[Sachin Dev Burman]], [[Rahul Dev Burman]], [[Bhupen Hazarika]], [[Lata Mangeshkar]], [[Asha Bhonsle]], [[Talat Mehmood]], [[Kishore Kumar]], [[Aarti Mukherji]], [[Kabir Suman]], [[Amit Kumar (singer)|Amit Kumar]], [[Shibaji Chatterjee]], [[Kumar Sanu]], [[Dhananjay Bhattacharya]], [[Shyamal Mitra]], [[Shreya Ghoshal]], [[Arijit Singh]], [[Mitali Mukherjee]], [[Dwijen Mukhopadhyay]], [[Manabendra Mukhopadhyay]], [[Sachin Gupta]], [[Subir Sen]], [[Uma Bose]], [[Kanan Devi]], [[Utpala Sen]], [[Alpana Banerjee]], [[Sabita Chowdhury]], D.L.Roy [[Dilip Kumar Roy]]

[[Tapan Chowdhury (singer)|Tapan Chowdhury]], [[Azam Khan (singer)|Azam Khan]], [[Abdul Jabbar]], [[Ferdousi Rahman]], [[Khurshid Alam]], [[Bashir Ahmad (singer)|Bashir Ahmad]], [[Syed Abdul Hadi]], [[Shahnaz Rahmatullah]], [[Kalim Sharafi]], [[Abida Sultana]], [[Kanak Chapa]], [[Shakila Zafar]], [[Samina Chowdhury]], [[Kumar Biswajit]], [[Arnob]], [[Farida Parveen]], [[Andrew Kishore]], [[James (musician)|James]], [[Ayub Bachchu]], [[Mila Islam|Mila]], [[Anusheh Anadil]], [[Sabina Yasmin]], and [[Runa Laila]] all hailing from Bangladesh.

[[Krishna Chandra Dey]] and [[Pannalal Bhattacharya]], were famous for their renditions of devotional songs, while [[Abbasuddin Ahmed]], [[Kiran Chandra Roy]], [[Amar Pal]] were stalwarts in singing Bengali folk music.

Bengali music is highly indebted to [[Lalon]], [[Rabindranath Tagore]], [[Kazi Nazrul Islam]] and [[Jasim Uddin]].

All traditional Bengali music is based on classical music or on its variations. Some of the most reputed classical musicians of the sub-continent come from Bengal including [[Ustad Allauddin Khan]], [[Tarapada Chakraborty]], [[Pandit Jnan Prakash Ghosh]] (1909-1987), Pandit [[Ravi Shankar]], Pandit [[Manas Chakraborty]], Ustad [[Ayet Ali Khan]] and Ustad [[Abed Hossain Khan]].

Notable Bengali music composers active in Calcutta ([[Kolkata]]) in the 1930s through the 1980s include [[Himangshu Dutta]], [[Kamal Dasgupta]], [[Rai Chand Boral]], [[Pankaj Kumar Mullick]], [[Anupam Ghatak]], [[Sachin Dev Burman]], [[Rahul Dev Burman]] [[Nachiketa Ghosh]], [[Hemanta Kumar Mukhopadhyay]], [[Salil Chowdhury]], [[Sudhin Dasgupta]], [[Shyamal Mitra]], [[Kabir Suman]] [[Ajoy Das]], and [[Bappi Lahiri]], while [[Pranab Roy]], [[Gouri Prasanna Majumdar]], [[Kabir Suman]] and [[Pulak Bandyopadhyay]] were well-known lyricists. [[Jeet Ganguly]] is a modern music composer of Bengali film songs and [[Bollywood]] songs.

===Bengali rock===

Bengali rock is a music genre in which the song lyrics are written in the Bengali language. It may refer to:
*[[Bangladeshi rock|Rock music of Bangladesh]]
*[[Rock music of West Bengal]]

Western influence has resulted in the emergence of the phenomenon of Bengali bands, both in [[Dhaka]] and in [[Kolkata]], as well as songs reflecting the joys and sorrows of the common man, ''Jibonmukhi Gaan'' (songs from life), which was inspired by [[Kabir Suman]]. Bengali bands became popular with young people in the 1970s, both in [[India]] and [[Bangladesh]], and have since become entrenched in modern Bengali culture. Recently, traditional folk-based Bengali songs are also being released by bands.

;Rock music of Bangladesh
{{Main|Bangladeshi rock}}

Bangladeshi rock or Bangla rock originated in Chittagong with roots in 1960s and 1970s rock and roll. Bangladeshi rock music was influenced by the American and British rock and roll music. In the 1960s, blues rock was introduced by Zinga, The Windy Side of Care, The Lightnings, Rambling Stones etc. From early to mid 1970s pop rock music was introduced by Uchcharon, Souls, Feedback and Miles. In the 1980s number of subgenres such as hard rock and heavy metal was introduced. In the 1990s hard rock and heavy metal broke through the mainstream with bands like LRB, Feelings, Ark and Warfaze, Miles, Maqsood O' Dhaka, Souls etc. music of Bangladesh

;Rock music of West Bengal
{{Main|Rock music of West Bengal}}

Rock music of West Bengal originated in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. The first rock band in West Bengal was [[Moheener Ghoraguli]] and also India's first rock band. In modern times, in this type of music distorted electric guitars, bass guitar, and drums are used, and sometimes accompanied with pianos and keyboards and in early times the instruments used in the modern times were also accompanied by saxophone, flute, violin and bass violin. Bhoomi a Bengali rock band formed in 1999 has also been using flute in their music.

====Famous bands====
;Bangladesh
Some famous Bangladeshi bands are [[Nova (Bangladeshi band)|Nova]], [[Azam Khan (singer)|Uccharon]], [[Ferdous Wahid|Spondan]], [[Souls (band)|Souls]], [[Obscure (band)|Obscure]], [[Different Touch]], [[Feedback (band)|Feedback]], [[Ark (Bangladeshi band)|Ark]], [[Miles (band)|Miles]], [[Love Runs Blind|LRB]], [[Warfaze]], [[Joler Gaan]], [[Dalchhut]], [[Avash]], [[Shironamhin]], [[James (Nagar Baul)|Nagar Baul]].

;India
Bands like [[Moheener Ghoraguli]], [[Bhoomi (band)|Bhoomi]], [[Chandrabindoo (band)|Chandrabindoo]], [[Fossils (band)|Fossils]], [[Cactus (Indian band)|Cactus]], [[Lakkhichhara]], [[Krosswindz]], [[Kalpurush]](<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.kalpurush.in/the%20band.html |title=Archived copy |access-date=13 June 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150616023545/http://www.kalpurush.in/the%20band.html |archive-date=16 June 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref>), [[Prithibi]], etc.

English bands from Kolkata include [[Cassini's Division]], [[Bolepur Bluez]], [[Insomnia (band)|Insomnia]], [[Underground Authority]], [[Pseudonym]], [[Chronic Xorn]], are also notable. Singers like [[Ajoy Chakraborty]] and [[Kaushiki Chakraborty]] are working to bring back classical [[raga]] influence into Bengali music.

Bengali bands use a wide variety of styles such as [[Rock music|rock]], [[pop music|pop]], [[folk music|folk]], and [[fusion (music)|fusion]]. Their music is influenced both by popular [[Music of the Americas|American music]] as well as traditional Bengali folk music such as [[Bhatiali]], [[Bhawaiya]], [[Shyama Sangeet]] and [[Baul]].

==Bangladeshi hip hop==
{{Main|Bangladeshi hip hop}}

Bangladeshi hip hop is a genre of music and culture that covers a variety of styles of hip hop music developed in Bangladesh. Bangladeshi hip hop is heavily influenced by US hip hop, and started in early 2000.

==Notes==
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==Works cited==
* {{Citation|last1=Tagore |first1=Rabindranath|last2=Dutta|first2=K. (editor)|last3=Robinson|first3=A. (editor)|author3-link=W. Andrew Robinson|publication-date=28 June 1997|year=1997|title=Selected Letters of Rabindranath Tagore|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-59018-1}}

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