Jayanta Hazarika

Music Singer

Born: 20 September 1943

Died: 15 October 1977

He was an Assamese Indian singer and composer.
He wrote lyrics for a few songs and composed music for several movies.
In his short 34 years life span, he created many legendary songs that are still widely popular today in Assam.
Popularly known as Rana-da, he was the younger brother of Late Dr. Bhupen Hazarika.
He started his musical career accompanying his brother and later made his name as singer and composer on his own right.
He was the first Assamese composer to fuse western musical forms such as rock and roll, jazz and Western Classical with traditional Assamese melodies and created a new sound.
He was a pioneer in introducing several western instruments in his compositions.
His musical career began with him accompanying his brother Bhupen Hazarika in stages and recordings.
The first two songs Jayanta recorded with HMV were Aagoli botahe kopale kolore paat and Krishnachura Krishnachura which became instant hits and started his professional musical career.
In 1963, he did his first playback singing with the song Sonar baran pakhire tor along with Shyamal Mitra for the movie ‘Maniram Dewan’.
Bhupen Hazarika was the music director for this movie.
He along with Himangshu Biswas worked as assistant music director for this movie.
Thereafter Jayanta began full-time singing and music composition.
He worked as assistant music director for Bhupen Hazarika’s movie ‘Loti-Ghoti’ and ‘Chikmik Bijuli’.
He did small roles for two Assamese movies ‘Loti-Ghoti’ and ‘Chikmik bijuli’.