Bubu Eklund

Bubu Eklund (née Munshi, born: 11 March 1951) is an Indian-born Swedish singer and exponent of Rabindra Sangeet. She is based in Lund and leads the Lund International Tagore Choir with her husband Lars Eklund, which is involved in popularising Rabindra Sangeet and the ideologies of Rabindranath Tagore in Sweden.^[1] She is the daughter of Indian painter and commercial artist Annada Munsi. Eklund is known for her series of concerts titled A Swedish View of Rabindranath Tagore, along with Per Olov Henricson.^[2]

Bubu Eklund
Portrait, Sydsvenskan
Born	Bubu Munshi (1951-03-11)11 March 1951 Paikpara, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Nationality	Swedish
Alma mater	Rabindra Bharati University
Occupation(s)	Singer, exponent of Rabindra Sangeet
Spouse	Lars Eklund
Father	Annada Munshi
Relatives	Manu Munsi (half-uncle)

Biography

Eklund was born in a Bengali family, the daughter of painter and commercial artist Annada Munsi. She attended the Rabitirtha Institute in Kolkata, India, as a student of Rabindra Sangeet exponents Suchitra Mitra and Kanika Bandopadhyay.^[1]

Eklund started the International Tagore Choir in Lund with her husband Lars Eklund in 2011, where Swedish people are trained to sing Rabindra Sangeet. She lives in Lund, Sweden from 1983 with her husband Lars Eklund.^[1][3][4]

Performances

• Performance at Lund Cathedral to commemorate Mother Teresa after her demise in 1997
• Performance at the Nobel Prize Museum at Stockholm in 2002 in the presence of Chitra Narayanan, the former Ambassador of India to Sweden
• The Lund concert on the occasion of Tagore's 150th Birth Anniversary in 2011
• Performance in Uppsala University on the occasion of Tagore's 150th Birth Anniversary in 2011 in the presence of AFM Gousal Azam Sarker, Former Ambassador of Bangladesh to Sweden and Ashok Sajjanhar, Former Ambassador of India to Sweden
• The India Tour in 2013: Performances in Star Theatre, Kolkata, Sangit Bhavana of Visva-Bharati University, Shakuntala Rheumatology Hospital and Research Institute in Balasore, North Orissa University and IIT Kharagpur.^[5]
• The Stockholm concert in 2014 on the celebration of 100 years of Tagore's Nobel Prize winning
• The Bangladesh Tour in 2023^[6]

Further reading

• Rutberg, Ingela (February 17, 2002), i nytt ljus: En klockas pinglande hördes ut i Regionmuseets foajé. Ringlande rökelse och Bubu Eklunds sång mötte de 50 personer som lämnat det vackra vädret på söndagseftermiddagen och letat sig in i Regionmuseets samlingssal för att få veta mer om hinduismen (in Swedish).
• Eklund, Lars (2020), Lund International Tagore Choir tour to Bangladesh 2019-2020
• Henån, Kulturhuset (november, 2015), Sissela Kyle läser Gandhi och Bubu Munshi Eklund från Calcutta spelar och sjunger Tagore (in Swedish).