Badal Roy
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Indian tabla player, percussionist, and recording artist (1945–2022)
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1936-04-23
- Active to
- 1988-12-06
adult standardsblue-eyed soulclassic rockcountrycountry popfolk rock
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1,064
- Total plays
- 5,836
Tags
folktraditionaltablaindiapercussion
Badal Roy (Bangla: বাদল রায়) (born Amarendra Roy Chowdhury in Comilla, eastern Bengal, British India, 1945) is a tabla player, percussionist, and recording artist known for his work in jazz, world music, and experimental music. Biography Roy was born into a Hindu family in a predominantly Muslim eastern Bengal region of British India (which later became East Pakistan, then Bangladesh)[1]. He speaks the Bengali, English, Hindi, and Urdu languages[1]. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Badal+R
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Pakistan
- Place of birth
- Cumilla
- Place of death
- Wilmington
- Occupation
- jazz musician
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- Bangla
- Genre
- jazz fusion
- Instrument
- tabla
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- date of birth
- 1939-10-16
- start of work period
- 1959-00-00
- date of death
- 2022-01-18
- manner of death
- natural causes
- cause of death
- COVID-19
- nickname
- Badal
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