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Hemanta Mukherjee

1920 - 1989

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Hemanta Mukhopadhyay (16 June 1920 – 26 September 1989), known professionally as Hemanta Mukherjee and Hemant Kumar, was an Indian music director and a playback singer who primarily sang in Bengali and Hindi, along with several other Indian languages, including Marathi, Gujarati, Odia, Assamese, Tamil, Punjabi, Bhojpuri, Konkani, Sanskrit and Urdu. He was a artist in Bengali and Hindi film music, Rabindra Sangeet, and various other genres. He was the recipient of two National Awards for Best Male Playback Singer and was popularly known as the "Voice of God". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hemanta Mukherjee is the 1,571st most popular singer (up from 1,761st in 2019), the 742nd most popular biography from India (up from 777th in 2019) and the 15th most popular Indian Singer.

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Among SINGERS

Among singers, Hemanta Mukherjee ranks 1,571 out of 4,381Before him are Daesung, Ben Harper, Masashi Tashiro, Maya Kristalinskaya, Lauri Ylönen, and Hanne Krogh. After him are Girija Devi, Phil Mogg, Frankie Lymon, Jelena Rozga, Zemfira, and CL.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Hemanta Mukherjee ranks 366Before him are Idea Vilariño, Lucidio Sentimenti, Neville Brand, Raisa Aronova, Cecilia Colledge, and Ingemar Hedberg. After him are Vera Ralston, Mariya Smirnova, Ralph Meeker, William Colby, William Tenn, and Osamu Hayaishi. Among people deceased in 1989, Hemanta Mukherjee ranks 242Before him are Lee Calhoun, King Tubby, Frank Sullivan, M. King Hubbert, Roberto Figueroa, and Virgil Thomson. After him are György Kulin, Asbjørn Ruud, Birago Diop, Duncan Gregg, John Harding, 1st Baron Harding of Petherton, and John Ogdon.

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In India

Among people born in India, Hemanta Mukherjee ranks 742 out of 1,861Before him are Trisha (1983), Mayawati (1956), M. M. Keeravani (1961), Amala Akkineni (1967), Dimple Kapadia (1957), and S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan (1940). After him are Girija Devi (1929), K. S. Chithra (1963), Rani Mukerji (1978), Jyoti Basu (1914), K. Shivaram Karanth (1902), and Sivaji Ganesan (1928).

Among SINGERS In India

Among singers born in India, Hemanta Mukherjee ranks 15Before him are Gangubai Hangal (1913), M. S. Subbulakshmi (1916), Jasraj (1930), S. P. Balasubrahmanyam (1946), Manna Dey (1919), and Bhimsen Joshi (1922). After him are Girija Devi (1929), K. J. Yesudas (1940), Udit Narayan (1955), Ali Akbar Khan (1922), Jagjit Singh (1941), and Parveen Sultana (1950).