Shyamal Mitra

Shyamal Mitra
শ্যামল মিত্র
Born(1929-01-14)14 January 1929
Naihati, Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India (present-day Kolkata, India)
Died15 November 1987(1987-11-15) (aged 58)
Calcutta, West Bengal, India
Genres
  • Bengali classical music
  • Indian classical
  • Bengali ghazal
Occupations

Shyamal Mitra (14 January 1929 – 15 November 1987) was an Indian versatile playback singer and music director along with Hemanta Mukherjee and Manna Dey. Mitra had also worked in many Hindi and Bengali films as a music director and film producer. He was the most notable musician of the golden era of Bengali music industry. His baritone voice reflected a range of emotions. Besides recording a huge number of popular Bengali basic songs, he also worked as a playback singer in more than a hundred Bengali films and directed music in more than fifty Bengali films. He also sang in various other Indian languages, like Hindi, Assamese, and Oriya.[1]

  1. ^ Shyamal Mitra, Aajkal, ISBN 978-81-7990-115-1