West Bengal Government honoured Bappi Lahiri and Kumar Sanu with Lifetime Achievement Award. Chief Minister Smt. Mamta Banerjee handed over the award to lahiri at the inauguration ceremony of annual Bangala Sangeet Meet. Sanu could not be present, and was given the award in absentia.
Besides, the Bishesh Sangeet Samman was awarded to Dwijen Mukhyopadhyay, Ajoy Chakraborty and Sandhya Mukherjee. Shantanu Moitra was honoured with Maha Sangeet Samman along with Mohammad Aziz, Kumar Bose and Shibaji Chattopadhyay. Sriradha Bandyopadhyay, Dileep Kumar Bose, Fakir Alamgir, and Nachiketa were given Special Sangeet Samman. Banerjee also said that over 6,000 artistes will perform across 10 venues during the Bangla Sangeet Mela which is to be held in the mid of December.
Who is Bappi Lahiri?
- Bappi lahiri is a veteran music composer in Indian film industry belongs to West Bengal.
- He popularized the use of synthesized disco music in Indian cinema.
- He entered the Guinness Book of World Records for recording over 180 songs for 33 films in 1986.
- He has composed over 5,000 songs in over 500 films in languages including Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Gujarati, Marathi, Punjabi, etc.
Who is Kumar Sanu?
- Kumar Sanu is one of the most popular Bollywood playback singer from West Bengal.
- He holds the Guinness Book world record for recording the maximum number of songs in a day, which are 28, in the year 1993.
- The Government of India awarded him Padma Shri, India’s fourth highest civilian honour, in recognition of his achievements in 2009.
