My teacher, Rashid Master, took me to that meet to participate. ‘I always believed in the phrase, “if there is a will, there is a way,” and it all happened within seconds. It was as if her world had come crashing down her father was the one that used to take her everywhere and missing the opportunity to sing on such a stage would be devastating for any promising singer.
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When she was young, her father became extremely sick as she was preparing to compete in an inter-district championship. She would promise to study hard for exams while her father was on tour, performing on different stages everyday. She was an ardent listener and a natural singer and quite often she would pack her bags with textbooks and leave with her father for musical shows in other districts. ‘Baba, at that time, did not start tutoring me as yet and was amazed to find out how I was quietly listening to his practices, picked up his songs and won a school award for myself.’ When she was in class two of Joymontop Primary School, her teachers forced her to take part in a singing competition where she won the first prize and all of a sudden veteran Modhu Boyati realised that she was a singer in the making. Pausing for a moment, the emotional singer added, ‘People always used to Baba, “Boyati why do you not teach your son to sing? Why the daughter?” But I always felt that music is such a divine enthusiasm that it depends on the person’s will to learn rather than being taught and in that respect, I lived on music.’ It felt as if the world was on one side and me on the other but the reason I could succeed was my father’s support.’ ‘I never felt shy to sing or hum and, opposing all the negative forces and comments made by the villagers, I kept on singing. Her friends and teachers would ask her to sing quite often. Baba was my first mentor and his songs and the world of spiritual music became an integral part of my life.’įrom her school days, her personality was translated into song, as everyone in the area knew that Modhu Boyati was a great artist.
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‘I literally learned how to talk through musical notes as the atmosphere and ambience of my home was so full of tunes. Sleeping, I believe, is the greatest cure motivation keeps me energetic and running,’ she added.īorn in the village Bhakum in Shingair thana, Manikganj district, her childhood was spent watching her father, Modhu Boyati, sing folk songs and write lyrics, mainly in the baul and pala gaan genres. ‘The day I lose this gift you will not find the Momtaz in me, and a small secret to my success is that I can sleep anywhere comfortably.
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It is this gift that allowed her to once record a staggering four albums in a single day, where most trained singers would struggle to properly complete just three songs. ‘I have an honest, God-gifted vocal, that is my magic and honest to God, that is my inspiration’. Her most humble admission was that she does not even know how to play the harmonium neither had vocal training nor does she practice singing every morning. Her style makes the songs so dominant and adds such a potent emotional touch that everyone listens as if the Pied Piper of Hamlin is bewitching them. What makes her a yet more powerful singer is her high-pitched voice, which never goes out of tune and sounds fuller, richer and more open with every song. The awe-inspiring honesty in the stories she tells of rural and urban experiences reflect her ability to vividly conjure stories in her music.
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In Momtaz, one of the country’s most prolific musicians, one sees such a storyteller. ‘I do not know how to play the harmonium nor do I wake up every morning to practice’ One expects interesting interviews from great storytellers.