Sri Chinmoy completes 13,000 Bengali Songs

THE MUSIC OF SRI CHINMOY

A 42-Year Odyssey:

Record 13,000 Songs Composed

Culminating a 42-year musical odyssey, 75-year-old world harmony leader and musical maestro Sri Chinmoy composed and sang his 13,000th song in his native Bengali at the Great Kamakura Buddha in Japan.

In addition to the 13,000 songs in his native tongue — itself a record — Sri Chinmoy has composed and performed the music and lyrics to over 7,000 songs in English and to nearly 100 in other languages, an average of 40 songs per month for the past 42 years!

While most of the songs were composed in New York City, where Sri Chinmoy resides, several thousand were composed in the 40-plus countries he has visited.

At the completion of his monumental achievement, Sri Chinmoy said, “My 13,000 heart-flower-songs in Bengali, my Mother-tongue, I am offering to all the soulful singers of the world, born and yet unborn. My gratitude-heart I am prayerfully offering to the Vision-Eye, Compassion-Heart and Protection-Feet of my Absolute Lord Beloved Supreme.”

Bengali is spoken by over 250 million people (sixth in the world) and has a rich tradition of literature and music. Rabindranath Tagore, who received the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature, wrote mainly in Bengali and composed 2,800 Bengali songs. Sri Chinmoy’s Bengali compositions have been aired on over 100 radio stations across America in the last two years.

The Indian Limca Book of Records includes Sri Chinmoy as the world’s most prolific musical composer of all time. Legendary composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein commented on Sri Chinmoy’s music by saying, “Sri Chinmoy is a miraculous model of the abundance in the creative life, and I can only hope that I may someday participate in that cosmic fountain of stillness and profound energy which he inhabits.”

Sri Chinmoy has performed his musical compositions at the world’s great concert halls, including New York’s Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall, London’s Royal Albert Hall, Moscow’s Russia Hall, Tokyo’s Budokan Hall, and the Sydney Opera House.

Sri Chinmoy just completed a series of concerts in Japan, including at the Great Buddha at Kamakura, at Hiroshima Peace Park and at Mt. Fuji. Sri Chinmoy will perform at New York’s Riverside Church on July 27th and in Nashville, Tennessee on July 28th.

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