[Assam] Zubeen melody hits Bangla music world

[Pradip Kumar Datta]

Zubeen melody hits Bangla music world
By Sanjoy Ray Assam Tribune
 GUWAHATI, Dec 8 – The soulful voice of the new-age sensation of the Indian music industry, Zubeen Garg, is breaking geographical boundaries, with the latest obsession being witnessed in neighbouring Bangladesh. Zubeen’s poignant voice, of late, has penetrated a promising market in the Bangladesh music industry, more so because of his recent Bengali chartbusters, which have already caught the fancy of music buffs in West Bengal and other parts of the Bengali-dominated areas. 

The popular singer-cum-music director has now been roped in by a Dhaka-based group in Bangladesh, where Zubeen would perform live for the first time ever in his career. The show is scheduled to take place sometime in the month of January next year. 

Talking to The Assam Tribune, Zubeen’s manager T Mittal said that the show was due for quite some time but owing to some political problems in Bangladesh, nothing was finalized. 

“But now, everything is settled and Zubeen too is excited about his maiden performance in Bangladesh,” Mittal said, while adding, “ Zubeen’s popularity in the Bengali music industry has been instrumental in catapulting his popularity in the Bangladesh music circuit, which comparatively remains an unexplored market even for many senior singers of the Indian music industry.”

The musical trip to Bangladesh, if sources close to the singer are to be believed, might also fetch the popular singer some new offers from the Bangladesh music industry.

“He is a popular face in Bangladesh and apart from his Bengali numbers, his song ‘Ya Ali’ still rules the roost among the music buffs there,” he pointed out.

Zubeen, it may be mentioned, has a kind of record of singing over 7,000 songs in various regional languages including Assamese, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Oriya, Marathi and Nepali, among others.

Zubeen, who shot into fame with the ‘Ya Ali’ number, is presently donning the mantle of a judge in popular Bengali reality show Sa Re Ga Ma Pa being screened in Zee Bangla. Besides, apart from adhering to his hectic Bollywood schedule, is also rendering his voice to a host of Bengali albums and movies. His latest Bengali music album Tumi under the banner of HMV was a smash hit both in West Bengal and Bangladesh.

The popular singer has also been roped in for a couple of Bengali music albums. It deserves mention that in the year 2005, Zubeen bagged the best music director award for his music in Bengali movie Sudhu Tumi. 

Though the popular singer could not be contacted for his comment, sources close to the singer informed that Zubeen, who is presently riding on the success of his latest solo music album Zindagi and has emerged as one of the most sought after voices in Bollywood, is currently having dates problem, for which he also had to opt out of the Sahara One’s reality show.

       
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