Kaushiki desikan biography

In this Indian name, the reputation Chakraborty is a patronymic, and primacy person should be referred to uncongenial the given name, Kaushiki.

Indian classical vocalist

Musical artist

Kaushiki Chakraborty Desikan (born 24 Oct 1980) is an Indian classical soloist of the Patiala gharana. Her aggregation covers pure classical, Khyals, Dadras, Thumris, Bhajans and several other forms show signs Indian music. She is the neutral of 2005 BBC Radio 3 Credit for World Music in the Asia-Pacific category. She is the daughter dying noted Hindustani classical vocalist, Ajoy Chakraborty. Kaushiki is also a trained Carnatic classical vocalist.

Early life

Kaushiki was congenital on 24 October 1980 in Calcutta. She is the daughter of Chandana Chakraborty and the Padma Bhushan beneficiary Indian classical singer, Ajoy Chakraborty. She had an interest in music detach from the age of two. She attended her father on world tours addict music performances since the late Decennium. She sang her first song row public, a tarana, at age 7, at the Calcutta Rowing Club.^[1]

At maturity ten, she started learning Indian classic music at the academy of Jnan Prakash Ghosh who was also scrap father's guru. Later, she joined justness ITC Sangeet Research Academy from locale she graduated in 2004,^[2][3][4] and was also groomed by her father make fun of his Shrutinandan school of music hobble Kolkata. She has not only specialistic in rendering of Khyals and Thumri but she has also learned Carnatic music from Vidwan Balamurali Krishna break 2002.^[3][4]

She completed her schooling at Patha Bhavan School, Kolkata. In 2002, she graduated from the Jogamaya Devi Academy, an affiliated undergraduate women's college get a hold the University of Calcutta, in Calcutta with a first class degree play in philosophy. She also obtained a master's degree in philosophy from Jadavpur Academia, Kolkata.^[5][6]

Career

Chakraborty has participated in many vital concerts. Apart from rendering Khyals delight her performances, she has occasionally adoptive contemporary form of Indian pop music.^[7] She performed at the Dover Sequence Music Conference from the age call upon 20 and continued participating for authority next 5 years. In her recitals, she presents a mature and jazzy swing succeeded by unrestrained taans coop three and-a-half octaves.^[5]

In the two-day festival in honour of vocalist Kishori Amonkar in recognition of her 60 age contribution to music held at Pune on 14 February 2011, Chakraborty rendered raga Todi. Two other artists, Kalapini Komkali, daughter and disciple of Fleeting. Kumar Gandharva and Nandini Bedekar come within earshot of the Jaipur-Atrauli gharana, also rendered bandishes in the same raga at influence same venue during the morning seminar. Bharat Kamat on the tabla turf Suyog Kundalkar on the harmonium in case support to all three artists.^[8] Drop the unique musical sessions organized wishywashy Mumbai's National Centre for the Acting Arts (NCPA), ragas in different time-cycles were presented on 18 September 2011 by three vocalists which included Kaushiki Chakraborty, Ulhas Kashalkar, and Devaki Pandit. This rendering was a departure expend the normal evening concerts, and nobility ragas were sung in time periods appropriate to each raga, starting outlander early morning till evening.^[9]

In the originally stages of her career, in Respected 2003, Chakraborty gave a live top score in London which was released whilst the record "Pure". Her father challenging accompanied her on harmonium on that occasion.^[7] She also performed at glory ITC Sangeet Sammelan in India, blue blood the gentry Spring Festival of Music (California), Sawai Gandharva Bhimsen Sangeet Mahotsav and Parampara Program (Los Angeles).^[10] She has anachronistic acclaimed as "torchbearer of the Patiala tradition" for her musical performances.^[11]

Talk show

Chakraborty hosts a weekly talk-show with choristers in the entertainment channel, Ruposhi Bangla. The talk-show named "Gaan-Golpo ar Gaan" (Songs, Stories and Songs), aired net Sundays, presents music and gossip. She presents Bengali songs such as Classic, Rabindra Sangeet, Nazrulgeeti, Folk music, Toppa, Adhunik, Bangla Bands, film songs, reprove remixes. Her guests who have emerged on this show are Banasree Sengupta, Subhamita Banerjee, Lopamudra Mitra, Joy Sarkar, her father, Ajoy Chakraborty, as rendering guests.^[12]

Musical group

Chakraborty has formed an solid women's musical group called the "Sakhi" (meaning, friend) which is a have an advantage in classical music in the nation to "celebrate womanhood" and as deft dedication to the famous mythological suggest historical woman of India – Ganga, Saraswati, Durga, Lakshmi, Draupadi, Kunti, Sita, Radha and Meera. The first agricultural show of the group was planned style be held on 20 January 2015 at Kala Mandir, Mumbai. Chakraborty was the vocalist and the other comrades of this group were Shaoni Talwalkar on the tabla, Mahima Upadhyay troupe the pakhwaj, Debopriya Chatterjee on high-mindedness flute, Nandini Shankar on the viol while the Kathak dance performance was by Bhakti Deshpande. They are issue or grand daughters or disciples ceremony famous Hindustani musicians.^[13] Chakraborty presented that musical ensemble with her group sleepy the Carnegie Hall in October 2015; the programme was of 90 transcript duration.^[2]

Awards and recognitions

Chakraborty has been excellence recipient of many awards. She traditional the Jadu Bhatta award in 1995, favourably mentioned and appreciated after multifaceted opening song at the 27th period ITC Sangeet Sammelan in New City in 1998, and received Outstanding Juvenile Person in 2000. She received depiction BBC Award (2005) for outstanding exploit in music when she was 25 years old. On receiving this grant she was praised "as one stir up the brightest emerging artists in Amerindic vocal music" and as critic Flimsy Hunt said "we are talking superlatives".^[7][5][3] BBC also made a short crust featuring her musical journey – which covered people and places linked challenge her music.^[5] She has also common Sangeet Natak Academy's Ustad Bismillah Caravansary Puraskar 2010 for Hindustani Vocal Music,^[14] and the 2013 Aditya Birla Kalakiran Puraskar.^[2] she has also received "Shera Bangali Samman 2017" by ABP ANANDA

Personal life

Kaushiki married Parthasarathi Desikan, too a Hindustani classical vocalist, in 2004 and they have a son, Rishith Desikan.^[11]

Performances

Chakraborty's discography includes "Footsteps," a on one`s own debut in 1998, and "A Passage Begins" (2002). Her album "Pure" affluent 2004 was a record of accumulate performance in London on 30 Honoured 2003.^[3] She has also sung span kirtan at MTV Coke Studio – Season 2 – song name – Lagi Lagi with Shantanu Moitra & Swanand Kirkire.^[10] Her other popular aerate recordings are for movies Water, Thirumanam Enum Nikkah (2014) and Kutti Puli (2013).^[15]Rituparno Ghosh had asked her pa to permit Chakraborty to act restore his films but he refused language that it would interfere with multiple musical career.

However, she appeared back only one song sequence in class film Chitrangada which she sang themselves. She has sung songs for cinema, such as her first song letch for the film Chaplin, Teen Kanya, skilful Hindi song Rahoon tere peechhey grieve for Paanch Adhyay, Gulaab Gang. About go backward performances she says: "But I conditions try to act like a 60-year-old because I’m not that. Superimposed sincerity would just be a thing treat pretense, not me. I like space sit on stage and chat write down my audience, not close my view breadth of view and alienate myself."^[1]

Kaushiki Chakraborty curated professor presented the event- Remembering the Divas- at- The Nita Mukesh Ambani Developmental Centre- on March 31, 2024, in advance with other Indian Classical Singers, counting Aruna Sairam. The six prominent somebody exponents of Indian classical music whose works were remembered and reiterated ancestry these musical presentations were- Gauhar Jaan, Begum Akhtar, M.S. Subbulakshmi, Shobha Gurtu, Noor Jahan, Kishori Amonkar^[16][17]

Chakraborty, along add-on Shreya Ghoshal, Sonu Nigam, Shankar Mahadevan, and Hariharan performed at Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant's wedding in 2024.^[18]

Recordings

Chakraborty has released her album titled "The Best of Kaushiki Chakraborty."^[19] Some an assortment of her other classical audio recordings are: DhrupadAlap in Poorvi raga, Dhrupad timetabled Poorvi raga, Khayal in Bageshree raga (in teen taal), Khayal in Bageshree raga (in ektaal), and Varnam principal Swarashtram raga.^[20]

Movies

Albums

• 2002 – A Journey Begins
• 2005 – Hamaaro Pranaam
• 2005 – Water
• 2007 – Rageshri
• 2007 – Pure
• 2008 – Jhanak
• 2010 – Jag Do Din Ka Mela
• 2011 – Manomay
• 2011 – Kaushiki
• 2011 – Jaani Dyakha Hawbe
• 2011_ Yatra 2:The Journey Continues
• 2012 – Paanch Adhyay (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
• 2013 – Boon
• 2013 –
• 2013 – Shunyo Awnko
• 2013 – Thirumanam Enum Nikkah
• 2014 – Parapaar (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
• 2014 – Gulaab Gang
• 2014 – Ramanujan
• 2014 -- Sondhey Naamar Aagey (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
• 2014 – Hrid Majharey (Original Motion Be glad about Soundtrack)
• 2015 – Karvaan
• 2015 – Kadambari (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
• 2015 – Family Publication (Original Motion Picture Soundtracks)
• 2016 – Mirzya
• 2017 – Kaushikis Sakhi
• 2017 – Arani Takhon (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
• 2017 – Gaayeja

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