Kabir Suman

Kabir Suman is an Indian singer, songwriter, musician, music director, poet, journalist, political activist, TV presenter, and occasional actor. From May 2009 to 2014, he was a member of parliament of India in the 15th Lok Sabha, having been elected from the Jadavpur constituency in Kolkata on an All India Trinamool Congress ticket.

Suman was born in a Bengali Hindu Brahmin family onMarch 1949 to Sudhindranath and Uma Chattopadhyay at Cuttack, Odisha. He later converted to Islam. He was trained in classical music in his childhood, under the tutelage of this father. He graduated with an honours in English Literature from Jadavpur University and did a diploma in French language and German language. He then worked briefly in All India Radio and the United Bank of India. He left for Guatemala and worked there in radio latter for Europe in the mid seventies, and worked as a radio journalist in the Voice of Germany during 1975 to 1979. It is during this period that he heard the music of Bob Dylan in France, which became one of his most defining musical experiences.

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