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Answered by Anonymous
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The 24th of October, 2013, will be remembered as the day when India lost one of its finest playback singers. Manna Dey, over the course of his long and inimitable career, recorded an astounding 4,000 songs. He was the recipient of several major awards, including Padma Shri (1971), the fourth-highest civilian award in India.

Birth and Education

Prabodh Chandra Dey, better known as "Manna Dey", was born to Mahamaya Dey and Purna Chandra on May 1, 1919 in the erstwhile Calcutta. His early education was in a small pre-primary school. Later he went to the Scottish Church Collegiate School and the Scottish Church College, and graduated from the Vidyasagar College, named after the famous Bengali polymath and reformer, Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar.

In his school days, Dey used to sing purely for entertainment. His practice became serious once he started taking lessons from Krishna Chandra Dey, his uncle, and Ustad Dabir Khan, a famous Veena player. Consequently, he won several singing competitions during his college.

Singing Career

Manna Dey's career started in 1942 when he started working with his uncle as assistant music director. Then he worked with S. D. Burman, the legendary music composer. A few more stints and soon Dey was working on his own, directing music for Hindi movies. However, his desire for excellence was stronger than ever and he kept taking lessons in classical Hindustani music form living legends such as Ustad Abdul Rahman Khan and Ustad Aman Ali Khan.

Dey got his first playback singing break in the 1942 movie Tamanna, in which he sang a duet called "Jago Aayee Usha, Ponchi Boley Jago", which became a runaway success. He kept producing playback hits in movies one after the other, such as Kadambari (1944), Kamala (1946), Chaltey Chaltey (1947), Shree 420 (1955), Waqt (1965), and more.

Post Independence, Manna Dey worked with such legendary names as Lata Mangeshkar, Kishore Kumar, and Asha Bhosle, among others. Although he had started with singing classical songs, Dey was soon embracing and weaving fusion, western music, ghazals and other themes into his renditions. By the 1950s, he started composing music regularly.

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Answered by agrimvaif
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Manna Dey is undoubtedly one of the best singers that India has. This versatile singer has sung numerous songs and shared the limelight with some legends like Mohammed Rafi, Talat Mehmood, Mukesh, Kishore Kumar, etc. His father's name was Purna Chandra Dey and his mother was Mahamaya Dey. Since childhood, Manna De showed a penchant towards music and was encouraged and inspired by his uncle Krishna Chandra Dey, who was a renowned music teacher. The life history of Manna Day is indeed inspiring and as versatile as his singing career. Check out this short biography of Manna De. 

Manna Dey was sent to Scottish Church Collegiate School and later on to the Scottish Church College to complete his schooling and pre-university education. He completed his graduation from Vidyasagar College. Manna De always showed an inclination towards sports and excelled in sport events like boxing and wrestling. Manna Dey was a delightful person to be with and his contemporaries swear that he was one of the most sociable people in the studio, playing pranks and joking around with everybody. It is a rare trait in musicians. 

Manna De showed his singing talent in early days of school when he used to beat tables and sing to entertain his classmates. He then started to receive proper training in music from his uncle Krishna Chandra Dey and also from Ustad Dabir Khan. Manna De stood first for three consecutive years in three different groups of inter-college singing competitions. After studies, Manna De worked as an assistant music director under his uncle and then under S.D. Burman in the year 1942. After assisting many music directors, he eventually started to work independently. Manna Dey never stopped taking regular training in classical music from renowned singers and his teachers namely, Ustad Aman Ali Khan and Ustad Abdul Rahman Khan.

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