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. 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.

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.

According to a feature published in The Telegraph (India) in 2015, Hindol Sengupta (former Editor-at-Large, Fortune India) and Andreas Mattsson (Lecturer in Media Studies, Lund University), “It was in 2012 that the couple inaugurated their "other dream project" - a Swedish Rabindrasangeet choir. It now has 15 members, comprising an Indian and a Bangladeshi, but the rest all Swedes. The choir has performed at many concerts in Lund and also Uppsala, where a Tagore statue was unveiled at the university in 2013." The Stockholm concert in 2014 on the celebration of 100 years of Tagore's Nobel Prize winning The Bangladesh Tour in 2023

In 2013 the choir toured West Bengal and Odisha, performing at Calcutta’s Star Theatre alongside Mamata Shankar’s troupe and at Santiniketan’s Sangit Bhavana for students and faculty.