Shyamal Mitra

Shyamal Mitra (Bengali pronunciation: [ʃæmɔl mit̪ɾo]; 14 January 1929 – 15 November 1987) was an Indian playback singer, music director, and film producer. He worked extensively in both Hindi and Bengali cinema and was regarded as one of the notable figures of the golden era of the Bengali music industry, alongside Hemanta Mukherjee, Kishore Kumar, Manabendra Mukhopadhyay, Manna Dey and other bengali singers. Mitra's baritone voice was known for its expressive quality and wide emotional range. In addition to recording a large number of Bengali modern songs, he contributed as a playback singer in more than one hundred Bengali films and composed music for over fifty films.