“Lovely,” wrote an Instagram user while reacting to the video showing Indo-French couple’s rendition of Manna Dey’s Bengali song Jibone Ki Pabo Na . The Internet is filled with videos that showcase ...

Manna Dey built a parallel legacy in Bengali music, collaborating with legends like Salil Chowdhury and Hemant Kumar, and ...

Legendary playback singer Manna Dey blended poetry and melody in such a way that no one else in Indian cinema had ever done. Be it Rabindra Sangeet, memorable Bengali songs or Bollywood’s most pop ...

Zeenath Sultana Mitu of DU has been singing Manna Dey ever since her childhood train rides with her father, long before she heard the name of the man. Just look at the talent hunt programmes in ...

Manna Dey was as adept at rendering complex classical-based numbers, qawalis, ghazals and bhajans as he was at singing buoyant romantic songs, soft pathos-laden ones and light, fun numbers.Timeline on ...

Bengal and the music of India’s popular imagination are twinned. Our patriotic music is, in its greatest and best part, derived from that part of the country. The national song, “Vande mataram” (1882) ...

Music conquers all, and levels all playing fields. Listen to late Manna Dey, and one is reminded of the Narada-Hanuman story, where Narada lose himself in the song of Hanuman. The moral of the story ...

Credited with pioneering a new genre by infusing Indian classical music in a pop framework, Manna Dey epitomised the golden period of Hindi cinema with his inimitable style and memorable songs like ...

New Delhi: Manna Dey's knack for singing classical songs may have been disadvantageous for his career in filmdom, but the singer honoured with the Dadasaheb Phalke Award will be remembered for his ...

Kolkata: The Bengal music industry today described legendary singer Manna Dey as an institution who never compromised with music. "Mannada was an outspoken person and never compromised with music. He ...

Indian singer Manna Dey has died in a Bangalore hospital at the age of 94. He had been ill for the past few months and was in hospital for a respiratory infection. His funeral is due to take place ...