He often collaborated with the writer of India's National Anthem, a great poet, and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913, Rabindranath Tagore. In popularizing the music of the Baul, Nabani das Baul opened the doors for his people to the world. In keeping with this tradition, Babukishan father, Samrat Purna das Baul, a modern, popular legend among the Baul opened up the doors even further by collaborating and jamming in live performances with the top Western and European acts of the 20th century.
Babukishon, deeply inspired by his Father and Grandfather, knew at an early age he too wished to compose and perform. He began on the soil of Bengal but clearly he was destined to belong to the world of music. His journey started in early childhood when he joined his mother, Manju das, and his father, Puma das, playing and singing Baul music in global festivals.
Despite the many world tours, Babu also found the time to study Indian philosophy and Folk music at the University of Kolkata where he eventually secured both his BA and Masters degrees. So it was that his formal professional career in music began with his family in performances with artists like Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Ravi Shankar, & Tom Petty.
Babu's dream, however, was to create his own unique style of music and to travel the world performing it. He worked hard and soon became a master of Indian rhythm's and melodies. Though the subsequent years, Babu put this solid foundation in music to good use by composing and performing in all areas of India's entertainment industry as well as in a variety of venues world wide. Then, in keeping with his early dreams of a unique style of his own, he turned to the music of the western world that he had become so familiar with in his early years of performance.
His use of Baul & Indian rhythms combined with the Reggae produced his own brand of World Music - Babu's New Age, Bengali Folk Fusion is the result.
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