Subir Nandi

Subir Nandi
Born	Sylhet, East Bengal (now Bangladesh)
Genres	Folk
Instruments	Vocal
Years active	1970s-present

Subir Nandi is a Bangladeshi musician. He achieved National Film Award for five times.

Nandi was born in Sylhet, Bangladesh. He spent his childhood in Dhaka and Kolkata. His father was a doctor and medical officer at Teliapara Tea Estate. Subir has nine siblings. All ten of them learnt music from Ustad Babar Ali Khan. He grew up listening to Pankaj Mullick, Kundan Lal Saigal, Sandhya Mukhopadhyay, and Manna Dey. In 1972, Subir recorded his first song, Jodi Keu Dhup Jele Dai, written by Mohammed Muzakker and composed by Ustad Mir Kasem.

Nandi's musical career started since 1970s. He sang notable songs like "Tumi Emoni Jaal Petecho Shongshare","Amar Ei Duti Chokh Pathor To Noi","Ek Je Chilo Sonar Konna","O Amar Ural Ponkhire". His work in the film "Mahanayak" (1984) made him got the breakthrough. He also received the his first national film award in his career. He went on singing songs like "Shrabon Megher Din" and "Megher Opare Megh". He was awarded National Film Award for both of the films. In an interview with BTV he claimed that he had sung already 2000 film songs setting the record of second highest number of songs sung by any male singer only after Andrew Kishore.

In 1994 Nandi rendered songs at the House of Commons in United Kingdom.

Nandi performed on radio, television, film and live at stage. He initiated his career in 1972 with the song Jodi Keu Dhup Jele Dai. It was composed by Ustad Mir Kasem and the lyricist was Mohammed Muzakker. He sang Din Jaye Kotha Thake, a song from a film with the same title. The lyrics were written by Khan Ataur Rahman. He composed the song.

1970's history: Nandi learnt folk music from Bidit Lal Das, a Bangladeshi folk singer. Nandi was member of a musical band named Bidit Lal Das & His Team. The band was founded in 1972. Other members were Akramul Islam, Jamaluddin Banna, Rakhal Chakrabarty, Himangshu Goswami, Himangshu Biswas and many others.

bidit lal das was leader. The group sang "sadh er lau banailo more boiragi" song in many places. This song was collected by himangshu goswami. Then it was incomplete. Ustad rashbihari chakrabarty and kobi giusuddin completed the song. And bidit lal das composed that song. It was famous all over. The music team was famous all over Bangladesh. Once bangabandhu shiek mujibur rahman invited this group to his home. Subir nandi went there with that team. It was a memorable moment. Slowly subir nandi came to limelight. He always respected bidit lal das as his guru, senior artist and a great human being. Subir nandi sang many songs of bidit lal das. Bidit lal das is composer of "morile kandish na amar day", " kare dekhabo moner dukkho go", " binodini go", "sylhet porthom azan dhoni babay diyase", " sadh er lau", " ami kemon kore potro likhi re" and many others.

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