Personally I believe, I was born with a music sense. If I have some talent
at least in one field then it would be in music. Usually I like any kind
of music but I can not control my emotions when I go through RABINDRA-SANGIT
(Songs of Rabindranath Tagore, Nobel laureate in 1913).
While I like to sing any kind of songs, I am passionate about
singing Rabindra-Sangit. Many people have very wrong ideas that
Rabindra-Sangit is
not based on classical music. Actually people do not listen to most of the
songs of Rabindranath (at most only 5% songs would be a common figure (!) and
people judge about Rabindra-Sangit based on those songs only). Whatever
problem I have faced in my life, it is possible for me to overcome them,
at least apparently, only because of those write-ups of Tagore.
The entire
GITOBITAAN (collection of Tagore songs) can be found on-line.
Apart from Rabindranath Tagore, my favourite music director is
Hemanta Mukhopadhyay
(popularly known as Hemant Kumar). He is also my favourite
singer. I am just a great admirer of him.