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Gioventù PAPizzata

[swallowtail-ageha]

People call pap music the unholy child between the lady and adrian la serie evento, which fair but i propose a new epithet: the italian version of foodfight

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[babybluey]

Sarei tentato di fare una fanart di papmusic per il meme sono sincero ma ho la paura fottuta che venga presa sul serio da not just music e la gang

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April....its starting to pick up...

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Papon’s Notable Contribution in Making Folk Popular

Singer, songwriter and composer Angaraag Mahanta, popularly known as ‘Papon', faced a major challenge while growing up in his hometown, Guwahati- emerging from the shadow of his renowned Assamese folk singer parents: Khagen and Archana Mahanta. His father is also known as ‘Bihu Samrat’ or the ‘King of Bihu’ which is a genre of folk music native to Upper Assam.

Throughout his days in Assam growing up, Papon faced two extreme reactions- some people would say,” Of course he is going to be a singer. Look at the kind of backing he has” while others would say,” He has no choice but to live up to his parents’ standards.” But these pressures only seem to have helped Papon rise and reach the level he is at today.

Papon is a modern folk singer with a soulfully rich voice who could do complete justice to the depth of old songs and yet make them contemporary enough for a Bollywood crazy concert crowd. He is a singer who has gotten traditional folk music the recognition it deserves again as well as the English-speaking urbane people sing along to Bihu folk.

In 2004, he first took the northeast by storm with his Assamese album Junaki Raati. A few years down the line, he started gaining wider popularity in India’s independent music scene, when he began playing with his band- The East India Company. Meanwhile, between 2004 and 2011, he released five Assamese albums, all of which received huge commercial success and glowing reviews across different platforms.

Today, Papon plays all over India and abroad but his core base still lies in the northeast, where he manages to attract exceptionally huge crowds, something that very few of his indie counterparts can do. But as an English honours student at Delhi University, he was just another long-haired boy from the northeast. In a recent interview he said to the journalist laughingly,” I’d be floating around with my guitar and riding my Yamaha RX-100”. By the time he was 22, he’d started learning how to program and produce his own music. He spent the next 13 years in Delhi, making music and touring before finally shifting base to Mumbai in 2011.

Papon’s well-wishers back home urged him to follow in his father’s footsteps and take Bihu music further, but by then he had forged his own identity and sound: an intriguing blend of northeast folk music, rock and electronic and blues in which Assamese instruments such as the khol, a percussive instrument, and the dutora, a two-stringed instrument, male frequent appearances.

He has given Assam and India many popular songs and though it gets difficult for artists to manage two things at a time, Papon has managed to balance things out pretty well. He has made folk a popular genre amongst the youth today and will continue doing so for many more years to come.