Chutney Song | Caribbean Connection | Paddy Fields Folk Fusion Music Festival 🎵 Kalpana Patowary

SUBSCRIBE @MusicBoxLatest Chutney Song | Caribbean Connection | Paddy Fields Folk Fusion Music Festival 🎵 Kalpana Patowary Live Musician Credits: Song: कईसे बनी कईसे बनी Phulari Bina Chatani Kaise Bani (Bhojpuri Chutney Song) Lyrics: Traditional Kalpana Patowary: Vocals Anil Roy - Dhol Raja Das - Banjo Piyush Mishra - Keyboard Himanshu - Bass Guitar Santanu Baruah: Guitar Sunil Hela - Dholak Subhash Kanojia - Dholak Percussions - Bhaskar Jyoti Das #Kalpana Patowary is one of India’s respected folk singers. She was born in 1978 in the northeastern state of Assam. Her father, singer Sri Bipin Nath Patowary, taught her local Assamese music from their village. Kalpana-ji formally studied Hindustani classical at Bhatkhande Music Institute University in Lucknow. There she was exposed to Bhojpuri folk singing in the forms of sohari, kajari, pachra, and vivāh geet (wedding songs). The institution is located in Uttar Pradesh, which, along with the neighboring state of Bihar, is where the majority of indentured laborers who went to the Caribbean, Fiji, and Mauritius came from. Despite recording compositions in over thirty languages, it was Kalpana-Ji’s renditions of Bhojpuri tracks that garnered her recognition. Through her research, she came across types of Bhojpuri music in the West Indies sung in the same way as their ancestral counterparts. Kalpana-ji was also drawn to the beats of chutney and chutney soca, which were birthed in the twin islands of Trinidad and Tobago before spreading regionally in the West Indies. Her love of these fusion genres and their influences from Bollywood as well as calypso led to her visiting Trinidad, Suriname, and Guyana. She has now performed in each country, usually for the Indian Survival (Arrival) Day events. Kalpana-Ji has utilized her platform to educate other Indians about both indentureship and Indo-Caribbean history. This footage is from the 2017 Paddy Fields Folk Fusion Music Festival in India, where she covers Sundar Popo’s “Ham Na Jaibe” and “Kaise Bani” as well as Rikki Jai’s “Mor Tor." The South Asians in the crowd dance along enthusiastically. In the beginning of the full video linked below, Kalpana-Ji opens her showcase with an explanation of how Indians were taken to the Caribbean, the struggles they endured, the culture created out of those hardships, and achievements Indians have made today despite it all. 🎥: https://youtu.be/dU5PZ7mHL6Q?si=vId1T95T4USGd8K I

Added 8 May 2026