Indian film score composer, music director, music arranger, drummer and singer Ranjit Barot is the former drummer of what Indian classic rock band?
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4 Tune Kookies 4 Tune Kookies is an Indian classic-rock band formed about thirty-five years ago (as ‘People’). The band was started in the 1970s when the band culture was fairly unknown in India. The band comprises Babu(Saiprasad)Choudhary - (lead guitarist), Hosi Nanji (bass guitarist), Ranjit Barot (former drummer), Derick Gomes (current drummer) and Ronnie Desai (vocalist, rhythm guitarist and song writer)
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Ranjit Barot Ranjit Barot (born around 1955) is an Indian film score composer, music director, music arranger, drummer and singer. He is a longtime associate of A. R. Rahman.
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Sunil Ganguly Sunil Ganguly (Bengali: সুনীল গাঙ্গুলি ; 1 January 1938 – 12 June 1999) was an Indian instrumentalist from the city of Kolkata (Calcutta) who played the Hawaiian electric guitar. He produced many 78 RPM, SP, EP, Super-7, LP discs, audio cassettes and CDs from HMV, Concord Records and Sagarika including classical-based songs like "Yaad piya ki aaye". He made records of Indian Hindi film songs, classical based songs, and Bengali songs, and popularised the Hawaiian guitar in India, with his unique style and his accurate renditions enabled by his background in classical music. His renditions often had subtle twists and turns that made it even more melodious than the original song. At his peak, there used to be two LPs released during the Pujas every year by HMV, one containing songs by Lata Mangeshkar, and the other having instrumentals by Sunil Ganguly. The film hits he recorded were instant hits with the youth. Sunil Ganguly did many public performances all over India, including Kolkata, Mumbai, Delhi, Lucknow, Patna, Guwahati etc, including programs in classical music. He did one-man whole night shows in Mumbai, played in reputed College fests like the IITs, RECs. Some of the best musicians of the era, like Sri Y S Mulki, Sri Dilip Roy, Sri Samir Khasnabis, Sri Swapan Sen, Sri Manohari Singh accompanied him on his recordings and performances. He was a regular performer at Doordarshan programs (TV) in Kolkata and Mumbai, AIR (All India Radio), Radio Ceylon (Sri Lanka). His radio programs (like Saaz aur Awaz on Radio Ceylon) were popular and were listened to by many all over India, and this program continues to this date. He inspired an entire young generation to play Indian music on the Hawaiian guitar. He had many number of successful students, who are continuing his style of playing songs and in turn are coaching students in India and abroad.
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Jagjit Kaur Jagjit Kaur is an Indian Hindi/Urdu singer and the spouse of the music director, Mohammed Zahur Khayyam. She sang fewer songs for films than her contemporaries like Lata and Asha, yet all of her songs have been described as memorable masterpieces.
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Madan Gopal Singh Madan Gopal Singh (b 1950, Amritsar) is an Indian composer, singer, lyricist, actor, screenwriter, film theorist, editor and polyglot. He is currently Senior Fellow at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi while on leave from Satyawati College (Evening Classes), where he taught English literature. Son of well-known Punjabi poet Harbhajan Singh, Madan Gopal Singh has written and lectured extensively on cinema, art and cultural history besides performing the world over as a singer with his ensemble "Chaar yaar".
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Pendyala Nageswara Rao Pendyala Nageswara Rao (Telugu: పెండ్యాల నాగేశ్వరరావు) (6 March 1917 – 31 August 1984) was an Indian composer, multi instrumentalist, conductor singer-songwriter, actor, music producer, and musician known for his works predominantly in Telugu cinema, and Kannada cinema.
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Atish Raj Atish Raj (Urdu: آتش راج; "Fiery Reign", also spelled, Aatish Raj), was an industrial and avant-garde Pakistani rock band formed and fronted by Pakistani music journalist and writer, Nadeem F. Paracha.
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The Bollywood Brass Band The Bollywood Brass Band is a brass band playing Bollywood and traditional Indian music, based in London, England.
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The Bombay Royale The Bombay Royale is an 11-piece Australian band fronted by singers Parvyn Kaur Singh and Shourov Bhattacharya and led by Andy Williamson. The band performs original music that blends funk, disco and pop music with the classical and folk music of India, much like the soundtracks of 1960s and 1970s Bollywood movies. The band was conceived by musical director Andy Williamson who also plays saxophone and flute.
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Bandham Bandham (English: Relationship) is a 1985 Indian Tamil drama film, directed by K. Vijayan and produced by Anandavalli Balaji. The film stars Sivaji Ganesan, Kajal Kiran, Shalini and Anand Babu in lead roles. The film had musical score by Shankar Ganesh. The film was remade in Telugu with same name starring Shoban Babu.
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Manohari Singh Manohari Singh (March 8, 1931 – July 13, 2010) was an Indian saxophonist and was the main arranger of seminal film composer R. D. Burman. He along worked with Basudeb Chakraborty as music composers, the duo also popularly known as Basu-Manohari.
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High (musical group) High was an Indian rock group from Kolkata, established in 1974-75, and arguably one of India's finest bands from the 70’s and 80’s. Although their music was heavily influenced by British and American rock acts like the Grateful Dead, Allman Brothers' Band, Pink Floyd and Traffic, it was in terms of their original compositions that the band gained a huge cult following.
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Vinod ER Vinod was a famous music director of 1950's. In 1949, he composed a super-hit Punjabi film song "Lara Lappa Lara Lappa Lai Rakhda" sung by Mohammed Rafi and Lata Mangeshkar, in the film "Ek Thi Ladki" (1949).
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Moheener Ghoraguli Moheener Ghoraguli (Bengali: মহীনের ঘোড়াগুলি , translation: Moheen's Horses) was a Bengali independent music group from Kolkata, established in 1975. They were India's first rock band. It is difficult to classify them into a musical genre, as their music drew from wide variety of influences, including the Baul and folk traditions of Indian music and Jazz. Their style of music can be loosely called Jazz Baul.
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Amit Trivedi Amit Trivedi is an Indian film composer, musician, singer and lyricist, working in Bollywood. After working as a theatre and jingle composer and composing for non-film albums, he debuted as a film composer in the 2008 Hindi film "Aamir", and shot to fame in the Hindi film music scene with his critically acclaimed work in the more popular "Dev.D" (2009), which earned him several accolades, including the 2010 National Film Award for Best Music Direction for "Dev.D".
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Ilaiyaraaja Ilaiyaraaja (born 2 June 1943 as Gnanathesikan) is an Indian film composer who works in the South Indian cinema predominantly in Tamil since mid 1970s. Widely regarded as the greatest Indian music composer of all time, Ilaiyaraaja is also an instrumentalist, conductor, singer, and songwriter. He has composed more than 6000 songs and provided film scores for more than 1000 films, particularly being acclaimed for his background scores.
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Nachom-ia Kumpasar Nachom-ia Kumpasar (English: Let's dance to the rhythm), is a Konkani musical drama film. It is based on the lives of two jazz musicians, Chris Perry and Lorna. The film, which takes its title from the name of a song by the two artists, was directed by Bardroy Barretto. It starred Vijay Maurya and Palomi Ghosh in the lead roles. The story is told through over 20 popular Konkani songs from the 1960s and 1970s that have been re-recorded for this film. The film is set in the 1960s and is a tribute to the 'unsung' Konkani musicians of that era.
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Ajit Varman Ajit Singh Varman (Hindi: अजीत वर्मन ; 26 March 1947 – 15 December 2016), sometimes also credited as Ajit Verman, was an Indian film music composer. He started his career in the 1960s as a musician for the likes of Satyajit Ray, Mrinal Sen, Pankaj Mullick and Salil Chowdhury in Calcutta (now Kolkata) as well as Shankar Jaikishan and Laxmikant Pyarelal in the 1970s in Mumbai (then Bombay) till 1975 when he decided to make the transition to full-time music direction.
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Pritam Chakraborty discography Pritam Chakraborty better known by the mononym "Pritam", is a noted Indian music director, composer, singer, instrumentalist and record producer for Bollywood films. In a career spanning nearly one and a half decades, Pritam has composed music for more than a hundred Bollywood movies, covering many genres and becoming one of the most versatile music composers in India. He has won 2 Filmfare Awards, 4 Zee Cine Awards, 3 Star Screen Awards and 3 IIFA Awards among many others.
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Pavitra Bandham Pavitra Bandham (English: "Divine Relation") is a 1996 Telugu drama film produced by C.Venkataraju, G.Sivaraju on Geeta Chitra International banner, directed by Muthyala Subbaiah. Starring Venkatesh, Soundarya in the lead roles and music composed by M. M. Keeravani. The film recorded as "Super Hit" at box-office. It was remade in Hindi as "Hum Aapke Dil Mein Rehte Hain", in Tamil as "Priyamaanavale" starring Vijay and Simran, in Kannada as "Mangalyam Tantunanena", in Bengali as "Saat Paake Bandha" and in Oriya as "Suhaag Sindhura".
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Ram Kadam (composer) Ram Kadam (August 1916 – February 19, 1997 (native from city Miraj, dist : Sangli) was a noted Indian lavani composer and film score composer, who worked in Marathi cinema, during the 1940s to the 1990s, composing for nearly 200 films. He is most known for composing Lavani songs, a folk form of Maharashtra, and popular Lavani-based songs of hit film, "Pinjra" (1972), directed by V. Shantaram. He also composed music of plays.
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Raghu Dixit Raghupathi Dwarakanath Dixit (born 11 November 1974) is an Indian singer-songwriter, producer, and film score composer who is the frontman for the Raghu Dixit Project, a multilingual folk music band.