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  • Country / Bangladesh
  • Time Span / 1899 – 1976

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Influenced By (3)

Rabindranath Tagore, Jalal al-din Rumi, Omar Khayyam

Influence On (4)

Anil Biswas, Manabendra Mukherjee, Sukanta Bhattacharya, Firoza Begum

Genres

Folk, World, & Country Stage & Screen

Styles

Bengali Music Folk Geet

Kazi Nazrul Islam

Kazi Nazrul Islam (24 May 1899 – 29 August 1976) was a Bengali poet, short story writer, journalist, lyricist and musician. He is the national poet of Bangladesh. Nazrul produced a large body of poetry, music, messages, novels, and stories with themes, that included equality, justice, anti-imperialism, humanity, rebellion against oppression and religious devotion. Nazrul Islam's activism for political and social justice as well as writing a poem titled as "Bidrohī", meaning "the rebel" in Bengali, earned him the title of "Bidrohī Kôbi" (Rebel Poet). His compositions form the avant-garde music genre of Nazrul Gīti (Music of Nazrul). Continue reading on Wikipedia

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