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The Most Famous

MUSICIANS from Bangladesh

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This page contains a list of the greatest Bangladeshi Musicians. The pantheon dataset contains 2,662 Musicians, 2 of which were born in Bangladesh. This makes Bangladesh the birth place of the 70th most number of Musicians behind Dominican Republic and Singapore.

Top 2

The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Bangladeshi Musicians of all time. This list of famous Bangladeshi Musicians is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

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1. S. D. Burman (1906 - 1975)

With an HPI of 49.32, S. D. Burman is the most famous Bangladeshi Musician.  His biography has been translated into 20 different languages on wikipedia.

Sachin Dev Burman (1 October 1906 – 31 October 1975) was an Indian music director and singer. A member of the Tripura royal family, he started his career with Bengali films in 1937. He later began composing for Hindi movies and became one of the most successful and influential Indian film music composers. Burman composed the soundtracks for over 100 movies, including Bengali films and Hindi. Apart from being a versatile composer, he also sang songs in the light semi-classical and folk style of Bengal. His son, R. D. Burman, was also a celebrated music composer for Bollywood films. Burman's compositions were sung by the leading singers of the era, including Kishore Kumar, Lata Mangeshkar, Mohammed Rafi, Geeta Dutt, Manna Dey, Hemant Kumar, Asha Bhosle, Shamshad Begum, Mukesh and Talat Mahmood. As a playback singer, Burman sang 14 Hindi and 13 Bengali film songs.

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2. Vilayat Khan (1928 - 2004)

With an HPI of 42.26, Vilayat Khan is the 2nd most famous Bangladeshi Musician.  His biography has been translated into 17 different languages.

Ustad Vilayat Khan (28 August 1928[1] – 13 March 2004) was an Indian classical sitar player, considered by many to be the greatest sitarist of his age. Along with Imdad Khan, Enayat Khan, and Imrat Khan, he is credited with the creation and development of gayaki ang (a technique that emulates the vocal melisma of Hindustani classical music) on the sitar. He recorded his first 78-RPM disc at the age of and gave his last concert in 2004 at the age of 75. He has composed the music for several films, including Jalsaghar (1958), The Guru (1969), and Kadambari (1976). He had given a chance to newcomer Kavita Krishnamurthy in Kadambari which was the first song in her career.

Pantheon has 2 people classified as musicians born between 1906 and 1928. Of these 2, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased musicians include S. D. Burman and Vilayat Khan.

Deceased Musicians

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