Parvathy Baul

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Parvathy Baul is well known for her masterful solo rendering in the oldest style of Baul song and dance. She sings and dances only with minimal use of Baul instruments like Duggi, Ektara and Nupur all played at the same time. She inherited this style from the “Parampara” of Shri Sanatan Das Baul (Bankura District, who followed the style of legendary Baul Singer-Practitioner Shri Nitai Khapa), and Shri Shasanko Goshai who left his body at the age of 100 in March 2006. (From the Gurukul of the acclaimed singer practitioner Shri Vrindavan Goshai and Shri Nityananda Goshai of Murshidabad). For over a period of 30 years she has been travelling to meet masters of Bengal music traditions as a part of her search for Baul songs and its practice. She practised various disciplines of “painting, printmaking, theatre, and dance, the art of storytelling with painted pictures Yoga and a full-time Sadhika of Baul. One of the very few women who could withstand the hardships of the practitioner’s way of living. She has been conferred the prestigious Sangeet Natak Akademi award by the Government of India in the year 2018. She was conferred with the prestigious Lalon Smarak Samman, in 2021 by Shilpa Kala Academy, Bangladesh.