Legendary singers & musicians of Bangladesh

In early 1940s, the folk song composer and singer Abbas Uddin Ahmed (1901-59) met a young man named Hemanta Mukherjee (1920-89) at a Kolkata radio station. After listening to him singing, Abbas praised Hemanta profusely. “Please bless me,” Hemanta beseeched him. Abbas’s blessings must have worked wonders, because Hemanta trailblazed...