Hemanta Kumar Jamatia is a Tripuri folk singer, songwriter, composer and politician. He is a member of the Communist Party of India and the Secretary of the party's Teliamura committee. He received the 1996 Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for folk and tribal music.
Already a musician at 14, Jamatia joined the Tripura National Volunteers (TNV), a militant group. He left the group in 1983.