Nirguni Bhajan | Sakhi Ho Saiya Ke Nagri | लोकगायिका कल्पना पतोवरी

Assamese Bhojpuri singer Kalpana Patowary, one of the leading female vocalist of the country, with a rare and extra-ordinary voice, she is not only an outstanding vocalist, but also a thinking musician who takes the spirit and the essence of the maverick Bhojpuri folk tradition forward to International cultural radars.

She has been credited with taking Bhojpuri and tribal Assamese music to higher places of musical achievement while heightening respectability owing to her years of research and study into the ethos of Indian folk music. It is not surprising that she is the first to represent Bhojpuri Khadi Birha in MTV Coke Studio’s international platform in 2015.

Coming out from remote north eastern state Assam to unfamiliar direction of Bhojpuri folk music, Kalpana considers this golden moment as one of her milestones.

Influenced by the bard of Brahmaputra Padma Vibhushan Bhupen Hazarika, Kalpana Patowary took her early lessons on folk music from her folksinger father Bipin Patowary at the tender age of 4 in Assam.

Suriname newspaper published her image in their front page in 2014 honouring her as the BHOJPURI WONDERKIND. 25 students from Stanford University California came to Mumbai to study her work on Bhikhari Thakur in colloquial Bhojpuri language. Coming from a different cultural background of Assam, Kalpana considers this as a very rare phenomena of her persona, going the extra miles to set herself as the role model of cultural bridge, respecting the differences of diverse India.