Bonnie Chakraborty is an Indian playback singer. he was the lead vocalist of

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based band

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until 1998. He has sung many songs in several languages including

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and

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for various films.

Career

Chakraborty teamed with Neil Mukherjee and formed a band, Kashti which was promoted by Zee Music. They produced an album of 8 songs that came and went unnoticed by the general public, although it was popular in the music circles of Mumbai. After three years the contract ended and the duo separated. Chakraborty moved on with the formation of another band, Oikyotaan along with Kartick das Baul, a

baul The Baul ( bn, বাউল) are a group of mystic minstrels of mixed elements of Sufism, Vaishnavism and Tantra from Bangladesh and the neighboring Indian states of West Bengal, Tripura and Assam's Barak Valley and Meghalaya. Bauls constitut ...

singer from Guskara in

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. He has four Bengali albums to his credit including three for the group

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, led by

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. In 2011 he released ''Tagore Unbound,'' a

Rabindra sangeet ''Rabindra Sangeet'' ( bn, রবীন্দ্র সঙ্গীত; ), also known as Tagore Songs, are songs from the Indian subcontinent written and composed by the Bengali polymath Rabindranath Tagore, winner of the 1913 Nobel Prize in Li ...

album with his wife, Usri Banerjee.

Filmography

References

External links

Oikyotaan
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