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| name = Probal Chowdhury<br />
| image = Probal Chowdhury.jpg<br />
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| caption = <br />
| native_name = প্রবাল চৌধুরী<br />
| native_name_lang = bn<br />
| birth_name = <!-- only use if different from name --><br />
| birth_date = 1947<br />
| birth_place = [[Chittagong District|Chittagong district]], [[Bengal Presidency]], [[British India]]<br />
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2009|10|17|1947|df=yes}}<br />
| death_place = [[Chittagong]], Bangladesh<br />
| nationality = Bangladeshi<br />
| other_names = <br />
| occupation = Singer<br />
| years_active = <br />
| known_for = [[Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendra]] broadcasts (1971)<br />
| notable_works = <br />
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'''Probal Chowdhury''' ({{lang-bn|প্রবাল চৌধুরী}}; 1947–2009) was a Bangladeshi freedom fighter, playback singer and composer. He rendered several songs from [[Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendra]] during the [[Bangladesh Liberation War]]. After the war, he pursued his solo career in playback.<br />
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== Early life ==<br />
Probal Chowdhury was born in 1947 in [[Chittagong District|Chittagong district]], [[Bengal Presidency]], [[British India]] (now Bangladesh).{{refn|group=note|Sources vary as to where in Chittagong district he was born, and when. At least one places his birth at Rahmatganj in Chittagong on 20 May,<ref name="ds19Oct2009">{{cite news |last=Alamgir |first=Nur Uddin |date=19 October 2009 |title=Probal Chowdhury: Singing of Liberation |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-110431 |newspaper=The Daily Star}}</ref> others say he hailed from Binajuri village in what is now [[Raozan Upazila]],<ref name="bdn17Oct2009">{{cite news |title=Singer Probal Chowdhury dies |url=https://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/2009/10/17/singer-probal-chowdhury-dies |newspaper=bdnews24.com |date=17 October 2022}}</ref> and was born on 25 August.<ref>{{cite news |script-title=bn:শিল্পী প্রবাল চৌধুরী |trans-title=Artist Probal Chowdhury |url=http://www.dainikazadi.org/details2.php?news_id=3313&table=august2014&date=2014-08-28&page_id=25 |newspaper=Daily Azadi |language=bn |access-date=2018-02-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304132952/http://www.dainikazadi.org/details2.php?news_id=3313&table=august2014&date=2014-08-28&page_id=25 |archive-date=2016-03-04 |url-status=dead }}</ref>}} He was the sixth of Manmohan and Lilabati Chowdhury's ten children.<ref name="ds19Oct2009" /><br />
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==Career==<br />
He made his radio debut in 1966.<ref name="ds19Oct2009" /> In 1971, during the [[Bangladesh Liberation War]], the family evacuated to Calcutta, India. There he, his elder sister [[Kalyani Ghosh]], and younger sister [[Uma Khan]] joined [[Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendra]], the radio station of the Bangladesh government in exile, as singers.<ref>{{cite news |last=Habib |first=Ahsan |date=16 December 2006 |title=Kalyani Ghosh and her glory days |url=http://archive.thedailystar.net/2006/12/16/d612161405114.htm |newspaper=The Daily Star}}</ref> In 2017, the government of Bangladesh recognized them as freedom fighters in acknowledgment of their contribution to the war effort.<ref>{{cite news |title=58 more artists, cultural personalities recognised as freedom fighters |url=https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/2017/07/11/58-artists-cultural-personalities-recognised-freedom-fighters |newspaper=Dhaka Tribune |date=11 July 2022}}</ref><br />
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After the war he continued to sing on albums, radio, [[Bangladesh Television]], and in films.<ref name="ds19Oct2009" /><ref name="bdn17Oct2009" /> Among the songs he is remembered for are "Lokey jodi mondo koy sheto nohey porajoy",<ref name="ds19Oct2009" /> "Ami dhonyo hoyechhi ogo dhonyo tomari premer jonyo" in the film ''Sona Bou'',<ref name="bdn17Oct2009" /> and "Phuler bashor bhanglo jokhon" in the 1984 film ''[[Chandranath]]''.<ref>{{cite news |last=Mallick |first=Sadya Afreen |date=22 February 2010 |title=The Art of Words |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-127296 |newspaper=The Daily Star}}</ref><br />
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Chowdhury retired in 2004 from [[Bangladesh Chemical Industries Corporation]] in Chittagong, where he was an assistant manager. He died in Chittagong on 17 October 2009.<ref name="ds19Oct2009" /><br />
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[[Category:People from Chittagong]]<br />
[[Category:20th-century Bangladeshi male singers]]<br />
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[[Category:1947 births]]<br />
[[Category:2009 deaths]]<br />
[[Category:People of the Bangladesh Liberation War]]</div>Bot