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Hemant Kumar

Hemant Kumar is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Manna Dey, Talat Mahmood and S. D. Burman. Those roots explain a lot about how Hemant Kumar arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Mohammed Rafi, Lata Mangeshkar, Kishore Kumar, Mukesh and Manna Dey, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Lata Mangeshkar, Arijit Singh, Abhijeet, Kalyanji-Anandji and Kavita Krishnamurthy, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 35 connections around Hemant Kumar, reaching back through Manna Dey and forward to Lata Mangeshkar. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.

Background

Hemanta Mukhopadhyay, 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 an 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".

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Hemant KumarManna DeyTalat MahmoodS. D. BurmanLata MangeshkarArijit SinghAbhijeetKalyanji-AnandjiKavita KrishnamurthyMohammed RafiLata MangeshkarKishore KumarMukeshManna DeyTalat MahmoodGeeta DuttAsha Bhosle

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Hemant Kumar connections

Hemant Kumar grew out of Manna Dey, Talat Mahmood and S. D. Burman, shares an orbit with Mohammed Rafi, Lata Mangeshkar, Kishore Kumar and Mukesh, went on to shape Lata Mangeshkar, Arijit Singh, Abhijeet and Kalyanji-Anandji. 35 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.

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