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Date of Birth
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16-March-1949
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Place of Birth
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Cuttack
(India, Odisha, Cuttack district)
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Nationality
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India
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Also know as
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Suman Chattopadhyay, Kabir Suman, Suman Chatterjee, Chatterjee, Suman, Kabeer Suman, Suman
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Profession
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Actor, Singer-songwriter, Journalist, Politician, Singer, Film Score Composer, Poet, Political activist, Television presenter, Musician
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Kabir Suman is a Kolkata-based modern Bengali singer-songwriter, musician, poet, journalist, political activist, TV presenter, and occasional actor. Suman's music of love, anger, protest, hope changed Bengali song forever. Since May 2009, he is a member of parliament of India in the 15th Lok Sabha, having been elected from the Jadavpur constituency in Kolkata on an All India Trinamool Congress ticket.
He changed his name from Suman Chattopadhyay to Kabir Suman when he converted to Islam. He shot to fame in the 1990s with albums such as Tomake Chai and Boshe Anko.
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