The legendary Firoza Begum and Nazrul Geeti have almost become two synonymous words. Born in 1930, Feroza Begum was educated in Calcutta in undivided India and was closely linked with rebel poet Kazi Nazrul Islam, who is now Bangladesh’s national poet.
Firoza Begum started singing at a time when it was almost unthinkable for a Bengali- Muslim girl to be allowed to train in music. Poet Nazrul Islam, who was then the chief trainer of HMV, was impressed by her vocal talent and taught her. Even as student of class VI, she won the hearts of Bengalis by singing Nazrul songs on All India Radio. Her first record was released in 1942 by HMV when she was 12. In the illustrious career that followed, Firoza sang various formats of Bengali Songs such as “Rabindra Sangeet,” “Adhunik Bangla” songs, ghazal, qawwali and bhajan for her audience. During the course of her life, she would devote herself to popularizing the music of Nazrul Islam, in dozens of recordings and in performances across South Asia and around the world. Some people called her "The Nightingale of Bangladesh". Some of Nazrul's songs related to the Indian independence movement, with which he was closely associated, while others were more spiritual. Yet many credit Begum with saving a canon of music that was going out of fashion. She would later serve as the first chairperson of the Nazrul Institute, a government-funded institution dedicated to publishing the poet's works and recordings. In 1949 she and the established ghazal singer Talat Mahmud were the voices selected for the inauguration of Pakistan Radio's Dhaka studio. While Begum was only briefly a pupil of Nazrul, it was through him that she met Kamal Dasgupta, a highly prolific composer and singer who would become her tutor and eventually husband. While she was most closely associated with the music of Nazrul, Begum also performed modern Bengali songs, Urdu ghazals and even Hindu devotional music. In 1979 she received Bangladesh's Independence Day Award, the then-recently minted country's highest such honour.
This album “Bhiru E Moner Koli” is a compilation of some very famous Nazrul Geeti rendered by Firoza Begum. Some of very popular nazrul tracks like Patha Cholite Jodi and Naachey Irani Meye are compiled here. In a nutshell this is one brilliant Firoza Begum classic not to be missed at all.
== Tracks in this Album ==
All lyrics & compositions: Kazi Nazrul Islam
All songs sung by Firoza Begum
► Bhiru E Moner Koli 0:00:03
► Patha Cholite Jodi 0:04:14
► Modira Swapaney Momo 0:07:58
► Banka Chhurir Matan 0:10:47
► Esho Priyo Mor 0:14:26
► Ashey Basanto Phulo Baney 0:18:31
► Naachey Irani Meye 0:21:37
► Priyo Emon Raat Jeno 0:24:47
► Moner Rang Legechhey 0:29:00
► Ami Jaar Nupurer 0:32:21
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