Dwijen Mukhopadhyay Biography 
Dwijen Mukhopadhyay is an accomplished singer of Rabindrasangeet and Bengal Basic Songs. He has also rendered his voice for many Bengali and Hindi film songs. In a career spanning to more than 60 years, he recorded more than 1500 songs, of which about 800 songs belong to Rabindrasangeet category. He has also composed music for a few Bengali films and Basic songs.
In 1974 he received BFJA’s Award for Best playback singer for the movie - Ban Palashir Padabali. In 2007 he received the prestigious S. D. Burman Award. Padma Bhushan in 2010 and Banga Bibhushan the following year are the major honours received by him. He is also a recipient of Sangeet Nataka Academy Award and Honorary Doctorate by Kalyani University, West Bengal.
Dwijen Mukhopadhyay was born on 12 November 1927 in West Bengal. He received training in music from Sushanto Lahiri, Pankaj Mullick, Santidev Ghosh, Santosh Sengupta, Anadi Ghosh Dastidar and Niharbindu Sen. He got associated with professional world of music in 1944. He recorded his first collection of basic Bengali songs in the year 1945. The following year he became an Artist of All India radio and also recorded his first disc with HMV.
Since 1940s he was a close friend of Salil Chaudhury. He has also rendered his voice for a few popular compositions of Chaudhury which became extremely popular. "Ekdin Phire Jabo Chole", "Pallabini Go Sancharini", "Shyamal Barani Ogo Konya", "Klanti Name Go" etc to mention a few. He also recorded one song for Bollywood classic Madhumati - "Tan Jale Man Jalta Rahe". He also recorded songs for Bollywood films - 'Honeymoon' (1960), 'Maayaa' (1961), 'Sapan Suhaane' (1961) etc. A foremost artist of Rabindra Sangeet, he recorded maximum songs in this category. His devotional song 'Jaago Durga' is extremely popular in Bengal.
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Updated: March 20, 2016
