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A cappella group Beatmosphere to carry Bangladesh's flag at Eurovision Song Contest Asia
The ensemble won the national selection in Dhaka with the original song 'Tumi Ele' and will sing in Bangkok on 14 November
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Alauddin Ali, the Tongibari-born composer behind thousands of film songs
Born in a village in Tongibari, Munshiganj, Alauddin Ali composed music for more than 300 films and won the National Film Award…
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Banshbari's musical family: Dhir Ali Miah and three generations from Tongibari
One family from a village in Tongibari, Munshiganj, produced radio pioneers, film composers and a band-era hitmaker. Its best known early figure…
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S. D. Burman at 120: the Comilla-born composer who carried Bengal's folk tunes to film
Sachin Dev Burman was born in Comilla on 1 October 1906. On his 120th birth anniversary, a look at how his East…
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Atul Prasad Sen, the South Bikrampur poet who brought the ghazal to Bengali song
Born in Dhaka in 1871 to a family from Magor village in South Bikrampur, the lawyer and songwriter Atul Prasad Sen became…
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Sari gaan: the rowing songs that carry Munshiganj's boat races
As the monsoon-to-autumn boat race season peaks, a look at sari gaan, the call-and-response work songs of Bengal's boatmen, and the races…