Lalan Fakir is highly esteemed to be the greatest Baul artiste of all ages, and all other later Bauls regard him as their guru, and sing songs composed by him.
Among other contemporary Baul singers, the names would be Purna Das Baul, Jatin Das Baul, Sanatan Das Baul, Anando Gopal Das Baul, Biswanath Das Baul, Paban Das Baul, and Bapi Das Baul. Purna Das Baul is undoubtedly the royal king of the Baul families today and his father, the late Nabani Das "Khyapa"(included in the photo) was the most famous Baul of his generation, and Tagore conferred upon him the title "Khyapa", meaning "wild".
Purna Das was induced into the folds of the Baul music from his early childhood, and at the tender age of seven, his song won him a gold medal at a music conference in Jaipur.
