Famous Tabla Maestro Proshonno Kumar Banik was born at Dhaka in a “Gandhobanik” family in 1957. His father name was Madonmohon Banik.
Though Proshonno Kumar Banik was not born in a music lover family then his father took him to the famous Tabla & Mridongo artist of that time named Gourmohon Boshak to be introduced with The instrument Tabla. At that time Proshonno was just 9 years old. After the hardworking in learning Tabla for 9 years to Gourmohon Boshak he sent Proshonno to have better schooling under Ata Hossain Khan who was the royal musician of Nobab Amir-ul-Umrah. Ata Hossain Khan was so glad to observe Proshonno Banik’s skill in Tabla. He prepared Proshonno with his own care by teaching him carefully to make Proshonno a great Tabla artist. Proshonno Banik decided to earn the livelihood as a Tabla artist after finishing his studying. Within very short time his glory spreads all over everywhere. He achieved the glory by playing Tabla in many royal meeting in Bangladesh. He was so immensely popular as an instrumentalist & singer. His musical & instrumental excellence inspired both other singers & audiences. Without Tabla he was equally excellent in playing Pakhoaz. He was elected as a professor in “Bharat Shangeet Shamaj” in Bengali 1334 at that time.
Within his student whom were originally very famous they are Raybahadur Keshobchondro Bondopadhay, Harendrakishor Raychowdhury, Pranbollov Goshwamy & Aksay Karmakar.
Proshonno Banik wrote two famous books as “Tabla Torongini” & “Mridanga Probeshika” for the Tabla & Mridanga lover students.
TablaRaj Bangladesh always respect him
Information collected by
Aninda Bhowmik
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