Songs from: Kunti Moktan
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	Song	Singer	Music By	Lyrics By	Genre	Album/ Movie	Band	Lyrics/ Notes
	Baleko Jiban Played:1544	Kunti Moktan			Lok Geet
	Barpipalko Chaya Played:1058	Kunti Moktan			Lok Geet
	Basirahe Ekantama Played:755	Kunti Moktan			Aadhunik
	Bhanchan Kohi Played:1009	Kunti Moktan			Aadhunik
	Bhuichalo Gayepachi Played:618	Kunti Moktan			Aadhunik
	Chiya Bari Danda Played:796	Kunti Moktan			Lok Geet
	Choli Ramro Played:1446	Kunti Moktan			Lok Geet
	Dherai Bole Dherai Played:1593	Kunti Moktan Deji Baraili			Aadhunik
	Ekatira Mayalu Played:558	Kunti Moktan			Aadhunik-Pop
	Gaadi Chalcha Played:505	Kunti Moktan			Aadhunik
	Gurans Phulyo Played:899	Kunti Moktan			Lok Geet
	Hajur Palnu Hos Played:542	Kunti Moktan		Kali Prasad Rijal	Aadhunik
	Hijo Aja Kina Played:440	Kunti Moktan			Aadhunik
	Juvari Kotko Played:931	Kunti Moktan			Lok Geet
	Kati Kati Gham Played:673	Kunti Moktan			Aadhunik
	Khusi Haru Nalukauna Played:354	Kunti Moktan			Aadhunik
	Maathi Maathi Shailunge Played:689	Kunti Moktan			Lok Geet
	Man Ko Deuta Played:350	Kunti Moktan			Aadhunik
	Manisle Hunna Ni Played:509	Kunti Moktan			Lok Geet
	Maya Lagcha Played:354	Kunti Moktan			Aadhunik
	Nirdoosh Chu Aafu Played:298	Kunti Moktan			Aadhunik
	Nisthuri Mayalu Played:557	Kunti Moktan			Lok Geet
	Nisthurile Chhodaima Played:364	Kunti Moktan			Aadhunik
	Phailiyo Maya Dubo Sari Played:409	Kunti Moktan			Aadhunik
	Sunkai Bhau Cha Played:3639	Kunti Moktan			Lok Geet
	Thakinna Rahechha Played:339	Kunti Moktan		Krishna Hari Baral	Gajal
	Timrai Nimti Played:355	Kunti Moktan			Aadhunik

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Artist Biography:

Apart from playing on the keys of the harmonium and practising music, her hands are also busy carrying out domestic chores. Scrubbing the floor, cleaning up the house, preparing meals and making her children ready for school is on the top of her daily schedule. It is only on completion of these household chores that she uses her time for 'Riyaj' (practice of music).


Before long it's 11 0' clock. Time to get ready for work. Students in many schools wait for Kunti ma'm to come and train them to sing. Kunti ma'm, an excellent teacher of music, is hired by as many as nine schools. Her name alone is a source of inspiration for many students.


Running between three to four schools a day, scheduling time for stage programs, carrying out her family responsibilities and allocating time for recording must be a real tough task.


Kunti Moktan, who dwells in the soft corner of thousands of Nepalese hearts, needs no introduction to the listeners of Nepali music. Her folk based classical songs are very popular. She is known to the audience as an artiste with a melodious voice, who has been singing for the last two decades.

Thanks to the economic slow down, the growth of the Nepalese music industry, too, has suffered. In addition, due to the weak mechanism to protect copyright, leave alone the beginning singers, even established singers like Moktan have a compulsion to adopt alternative professions to earn their livelihood.

And of course, there are the stage programs, which she participates professionally as well as voluntarily in support of some needy people or organization. In the late afternoons and evenings her schedules are usually packed with such programs.

For Moktan, it seems, the most important thing gets the least time. For recording songs, which is supposed to be the first priority of all the singers, she is compelled to steal time from the packed schedule. However, she gets enough time for recording and practice on Sundays. "I have spared Sundays for myself," said Moktan.

Moktan's musical career started from Darjeeling. During her childhood, when she studied at St. Xavier's' School, Darjeeling, she used to sing songs at the school programs.


A large number of Nepalese residing in Darjeeling have made their name in the field of music and literature in Nepal.

In the late 1970s, she passed a voice test and her songs started being aired from Radio Kharsang, a local radio station of Sikkim run in Nepali language. Even as the volume of audience increased from a few hundreds in a hall at the school programs to a few thousands of the entire region, her aspirations was to win the heart of a larger audience throughout Nepal.

Luckily her dream took shape in 1982, when she got an opportunity to record a song 'kahile kahin malai pani herideu hai pharkiyara', without having to pass the voice test in Radio Nepal. The process of passing voice test, which was considered a Herculean task then, could be avoided because she came in a team of cultural program presenters from Darjeeling. Impressed by the cultural program, the management of Radio Nepal decided to allow them to record a song each. Her very first song recorded at Radio Nepal became quite popular.

Shortly after that, she decided to come to Kathmandu with her husband Shila Bahadur Moktan, a popular musician, to pursue her career. In 1983, she brought out her first disc record named 'hit songs from Kunti Sundas' from Ratna recording in Kathmandu.


Her practice and devotion towards music has led her to become a successful singer, who will live for eternity amid the lovers of Nepali music. She has already brought out albums like 'kahile kahin', 'mayalulai', 'mero man', 'kriti', 'kusum' and 'kamero'.


Source: Nepalnews.com

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