Zubeen Garg: The Voice of Assam
He was born on 18 November 1972. Into an Assamese Brahmin family in Tura Meghalaya, to Mohini Mohon Borthakur and Ily Borthakur
Introduction to music
Garg started to sing from the age of three His first guru was his mother from whom he learnt to sing and he learnt playing the tabla from Pandit Robin Banerjee for 11 years.Guru Ramani Rai introduced him to Assamese folk music.Garg had been composing songs since his school days.
Education
Garg pursued his primary education at Carmel School, Jorhat, and later attended Karimganj High School and Bijni Bandhab High School. He passed his matriculation exam (class 10th) from Tamulpur Higher Secondary School, Nalbari in 1989. In the same year, he returned to Bongal Pukhuri, Jorhat, for his higher secondary education in science at the then , Jagannath Barooah College now Jagannath Barooah University.After that, he went to pursue Bachelor of Science degree in B. Borooah College in 1991 after passing his HS Final Exam, but dropped out to concentrate on his singing career.
First recorded songs
"Tumi Janu Pariba Hun" and "Tumi Junaki Hubakh" for the album Ritu, but it was not released until 1993.
The first film directed by Zubeen Garg
Tumi Mur Mathu Mur.
Bhargab Dowari
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