Background
Nandi was born in Sylhet, Bangladesh. His father was a doctor and medical officer at Teliapara Tea Estate. He grew up listening to Pankaj Mullick, Kundan Lal Saigal, Sandhya Mukhopadhyay, and Manna Dey.
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Subir Nandi
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He spent his childhood in Dhaka and Kolkata. Subir has nine siblings. All ten of them learnt music from Ustad Babar Ali Khan.
In 1972, Subir recorded his first song, Jodi Keu Dhup Jele Dai, written by Mohammed Muzakker and composed by Ustad Mir Kasem.
Nandi"s musical career started since 1970s. He sang notable songs like "Tumi Emoni Jaal Petecho Shongshare","Amar Ei Duti Chokh Pathor To Noi","Ek Je Chilo Sonar Konna","O Amar Ural Ponkhire".
His work in the film "Mahanayak" (1984) made him got the breakthrough. He also received the his first national film award in his career.
He went on singing songs like "Shrabon Megher Din" and "Megher Opare Megh".
He was awarded National Film Award for both of the films. In an interview with BTV he claimed that he had sung already 2000 film songs setting the record of second highest number of songs sung by any male singer only after Andrew Kishore. In 1994 Nandi rendered songs at the House of Commons in United Kingdom.
Nandi performed on radio, television, film and live at stage.
He initiated his career in 1972 with the song Jodi Keu Dhup Jele Dai. lieutenant was composed by Ustad Mir Kasem and the lyricist was Mohammed Muzakker.
He sang Din Jaye Kotha Thake, a song from a film with the same title. The lyrics were written by Khan Ataur Rahman.
He composed the song.
1970"s history: Nandi learnt folk music from Bidit Lal Das, a Bangladeshi folk singer. The band was founded in 1972. bidit lal das was leader. The group sang "sadh er lau banailo more boiragi" song in many places.
This song was collected by himangshu goswami.
Then it was incomplete. Ustad rashbihari chakrabarty and kobi giusuddin completed the song.
And bidit lal das composed that song. lieutenant was famous all over.
The music team was famous all over Bangladesh.
Once bangabandhu shiek mujibur rahman invited this group to his home. Subir nandi went there with that team lieutenant was a memorable moment.
Slowly subir nandi came to limelight.
He always respected bidit lal das as his guru, senior artist and a great human being. Subir nandi sang many songs of bidit lal das.
Bidit lal das is composer of "morile kandish na amar day", " kare dekhabo moner dukkho go", " binodini go", "sylhet porthom azan dhoni babay diyase", " sadh er lau", " ami kemon kore potro likhi re" and many others Nandi"s career spans almost four decades.
Since the beginning, he has collaborated with most of the music directors of our country.
He worked with yesteryear composers such as alauddin ali, prodeep saha, satya saha, somor das, sheikh saadi khan, alam khan as well as with the new generation youngsters such as habib wahid, South. I. Tutul, Bappa Majumdar, Emon Saha, Showkat Ali Emon, Kabir Bokul et cetera He has sung duets with all of his contemporary female artists such as Runa Laila, Sabina Yasmin, Ferdousi Rahman, Kanak Chapa, Shahnaz Rahmatullah, Rijia Parveen et cetera
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Nandi was member of a musical band named Bidit Lal Das & His Team.
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