Sandip Bhattacharjee

GHARANA

Kirana

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Sandip Bhattacharjee is a Hindustani classical vocalist of the Kirana gharana. Born into a family with a deep-rooted musical background, he was initiated into music by his mother, Smt. Krishna Bhattacharjee, at the age of four, and later continued his talim under Smt. Amita Dasgupta. In his teens he became a residential scholar at the ITC Sangeet Research Academy under Ustad Mashkoor Ali Khan and Ustad Mubarak Ali Khan, sons and disciples of the sarangi player the late Padma Shri Ustad Shakoor Khan. It was here that he was nurtured in the guru-shishya parampara of the Kirana gharana. He is now a senior musician scholar at the ITC Sangeet Research Academy, Tollygunge, Kolkata. Sandip holds a first-class graduate degree in classical music from Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata. Besides pure classical music, he sings semi-classical forms such as bhajans, ghazals and Nazrulgeeti.