{{short description|Indian singer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2023}} {{Use Indian English|date=May 2023}} {{Infobox person | name = Subinoy Roy | image = Subinoy Roy.jpg | caption = Subinoy Roy | birth_date = {{Birth date |df=yes|1921|11|08}} | birth_place = Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2004|01|9|1921|11|08}} | death_place = Kolkata, West Bengal, India | spouse = {{marriage|Indira Roy|1946}} | children = Surajit Roy<br>Suranjan Roy | parents = Bimalangshu Prakash Roy (father)<br>Sukhamoyee Devi (mother) | relatives = Sitanath Tattwabhushan (maternal grandfather)<br>Prabhat Kumar Mukhopadhyaya (maternal aunt's husband)<ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GK0EIZce1w |title=Subinoy Roy with Sankarlal Bhattacharya |date=2023-11-14 |last=Pankaj Saha Official |access-date=2025-05-29 |via=YouTube}}</ref> }}
'''Subinoy Roy''' (8 November 1921 – 9 January 2004) was an Indian singer, considered one of the best-known exponents of the Rabindra Sangeet.<ref>{{cite book | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=UKfoHi5412UC | title = Calcutta: A Cultural and Literary History | author = Krishna Dutta, Anita Desai | publisher = Signal Books |year = 2003 | isbn = 1-902669-59-2 | page = 226}}</ref>
==Early life== Subinoy Roy was born to Bimalangshu Prakash Roy and Sukhamoyee Devi at Kolkata. His father was chief chemist at the then American multinational ''Bird & Company'' and a literati, associated with Sukumar Ray's ''Nonsense Club''. Roy was initiated to Rabindra Sangeet by his mother at a very early age. His mother Sukhamoyee Devi was the youngest daughter of philosopher-scholar Pandit Sitanath Tattwabhushan. Later, while studying chemistry at the graduation level at Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan, he came in contact with Maestro Shailajaranjan Majumder and started learning Rabindra Sangeet from him. He learned Indian Classical Music from Ramesh Chandra Bandyopadhyay and Girija Shankar Chakrabarty.<ref name=ananda1>{{cite web|url=https://www.anandabazar.com/west-bengal/kolkata/kolkatar-korcha-1.702335|title=কলকাতার কড়চা|date=6 November 2017|publisher=Anandabazar Patrika|accessdate=2019-04-08|archive-date=16 May 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230516012427/https://www.anandabazar.com/west-bengal/kolkata/kolkatar-korcha-1.702335|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{cite web|url=https://www.anandabazar.com/patrika/special-write-up-on-the-birth-centenary-of-indian-singer-subinoy-roy-1.1225309|title=তাঁর গলায় রবীন্দ্রগান জলের ঢেউয়ের তরল তান|publisher=Anandabazar Patrika|access-date=18 February 2024|archive-date=29 March 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230329101931/https://www.anandabazar.com/patrika/special-write-up-on-the-birth-centenary-of-indian-singer-subinoy-roy-1.1225309|url-status=live}}</ref>
==Profession== At some time, he left Shantiniketan and pursued studying library science in England and joined Indian Statistical Institute as a librarian. Still, he became renowned as a teacher of Rabindra Sangeet that too for being an authority in Rabindra Sangeet in its purest form. He became a regular artist of Rabindra Sangeet in All India Radio in 1943.<ref name=ananda1 /> His first gramophone record was released on 1949, with two songs; "তুমি ডাক দিয়েছ কোন সকালে" and "এই করেছ ভালো".<ref name= eisamay1>{{cite web|url=https://eisamay.indiatimes.com/kolkata-collage-kolkattewali/new-town/article-on-tribute-to-late-rabindra-sangeet-singer-subinoy-roy/articleshow/49608028.cms|title=সুবিনয় রায়কে শ্রদ্ধাঞ্জলি|date=31 October 2015|publisher=Ei Samay|accessdate=2018-08-16|archive-date=17 February 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180217083855/https://eisamay.indiatimes.com/kolkata-collage-kolkattewali/new-town/article-on-tribute-to-late-rabindra-sangeet-singer-subinoy-roy/articleshow/49608028.cms|url-status=live}}</ref> Though Subinoy was a puritan in his rendition of Rabindra Sangeet, he was adaptable and open to liberalization. Once interviewed on the expiry of the copyright of the songs written by Rabindranath Tagore, Subinoy Roy expressed: {{blockquote|"''I'm not sure where all these do's and don'ts came from.... Rabindranath liked the esraj, violin, flute and tabla with his songs, but if the guitar, synthesizer and drums existed at the time, I'm sure he would have tried those out too. At least he wouldn't reject them if they made his songs sound better.''"<ref name="india">{{cite web|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/society-the-arts/story/20001023-rabindranath-tagores-music-may-finally-unshackle-with-visvabharatis-copyright-set-to-end-778282-2000-10-23|title=Rabindranath Tagore's music may finally unshackle with Visvabharati's copyright set to end|date=October 23, 2000|publisher=India Today|accessdate=2018-08-16|archive-date=20 July 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220720160535/https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/society-the-arts/story/20001023-rabindranath-tagores-music-may-finally-unshackle-with-visvabharatis-copyright-set-to-end-778282-2000-10-23|url-status=live}}</ref>}}
==Death== Roy died in a hospital in Kolkata four days after his wife's death.<ref name=tele1 >{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/1040110/asp/calcutta/story_2771376.asp|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040312002822/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1040110/asp/calcutta/story_2771376.asp|url-status=dead|archive-date=12 March 2004|title=কলকাতার কড়চা|date=6 November 2017|publisher=Ananda Bazar Patrika}}</ref>
==Bibliography== * Roy, Subinoy (1379 BS – 1972). রবীন্দ্র সংগীত সাধনা (Rabindra Sangeet Sadhana), A Mukherjee and Sons:Kolkata.
==References== {{Reflist}} {{Notable singers of Rabindra Sangeet}}
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