Debapriya

About Her

Debapriya’s mellifluous voice singing a Baul number is an immersive experience after all the noise and dust of the day. An alumnus of Jadavpur University in Comparative Literature, Debapriya is a singer by intent and purpose and sings folk songs from the Eastern part of India. Debapriya started her musical training at the age of ten from classical exponents like Bela Raha, Meera Banerjee, Manju Bhattacharya, Biswajit Dasgupta and later from the greatest folk singer of Bengal Shri Amar Paul…Though trained in North Indian Classical from Patiala Gharana and later Bishnupur gharana She always felt an inherent connect with the music of the subaltern, specially folk and country music. Her forte lies in presenting different Bengali folk songs specially bhatiali, bhawaiya, baul, and Lalonshah. She has honed her skills by attending several workshops held by eminent folk exponents like late Dinendra Chowdhury, Amar paul from Rajya Sangeet Academy and baul fakirs of Bolpur and Bangladesh specially those from Kushtia. She has been engaged in collecting songs by Lalon fakir. Her speciality lies in singing the philosophy of love and praise of god.She has also been doing playbacks in films like Bhallu Sardar, Aami achi shei je tomar etc and serials like Nati Binodini and many more. She is a regular guest on many television channels and has anchored many a shows. Currently, she traines students in vocal training, basic classical music and folk music in institutions and privately.

 

Her Credentials

Debapriya is an enlisted artist in the folkmusic panel of very prestigious ICCR under the ministry of external affairs.She is also a regular and empanelled artist of programmes under the Information and Broadcasting ministry of West Bengal and EZCC.  She has already got three folk albums to her credit..Dil ki daya and Mon Dariyaye from prime music and Arshinagar from raga music has got her a huge number of fan followers. Her songs from these albums are regularly aired on FM stations like fm gold, amar fm, fm rainbow and fm maitrayee.Her musical orientation is traditional yet modern, rustic yet touching the heart of millions of music loving city dwellers, thus making her an urban minstrel in the true sense. 

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