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Nothing small has ever come out of Texas. It's the state where big-breasted women don big hair and Clint Eastwood types carry big guns and drive even bigger trucks. It's also the land where big gospel choirs gave birth to some of the biggest voices in music history. So it comes as no surprise when Houston-native, Marko Dutta, belts out his soulful, throaty tunes in classic Southern gospel tradition, in front of thousands of people in local functions throughout Texas.
What is surprising is that Dutta is an American-born Bengali whose vocal range can emerge from the guttural depths of Southern soul and reach the high-pitched intricacies of Indian classical within the span of one song. Dutta's laid back southern attitude has kept him performing locally for years, before he met rapper/producer the1shanti at an annual South Asian conference in New York in 1996.
Dutta performed with equal ease, a Bengali song by India's poet nobelaureate Rabindranath Tagore and an R & B inspired English tune of his own composition, in front of an almost all-Indian audience of nearly 5,000. "It was like this kid had been born to sing," recalls the1shanti. "It didn't matter the language, he loved singing. And he is damn good at it too."
In working with the1shanti to release One Thing I Know, Dutta has developed a sound that blends his years of traditional Indian training with his on-going love affair with modern R&B. |
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2006 One Thing I Know (ep) (Flatbush Junction)
2006 New Calcutta Vol. 1 Mixtape (Flatbush Junction)
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