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Native name
  
सात्यकी बनर्जी

Years active
  
2005 – present

Birth name
  
Satyaki Banerjee

Name
  
Satyaki Banerjee


Genres
  
Hindustani folk music

Role
  
Composer

Instruments
  
Sarod, Dotara

Origin
  
India

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Similar
  
Mousumi Bhowmik, Sahana Bajpaie, Paban Das Baul, Anupam Roy, Farida Parveen

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Satyaki Banerjee (Bengali: সাত্যকি ব্যানার্জি, Hindi: सात्यकी बनर्जी) is an Indian Bengali composer. He is a part of an Anglo-Bengali band with members in Kolkata and London. He plays instruments like Dotara and sarod give his performance on both classical and folk. He studied the sarod with the late Pandit Dipak Chowdhury and now trains under Pandit Tejendra Narayan Majumdar. He picked up the dotara in the company of practising folk musicians, in akhras and melas and in him the classical and folk meld to evolve into a unique style of playing. He is also a self-taught oud and rebab player, besides being a magnificent singer of mostly Bengali mystical poetry, in the baul and kirtan traditions.

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Personal life

Satyaki is a historian by training and takes serious academic interest in the music he practices. He studied from Julien Day School, Kolkata, Elgin Road branch.

Music life

Satyaki has been part of Parapar since 2005, but he has also performed independently with Mousumi Bhowmik in concerts at home and abroad, including in New York, London, Leeds, Dhaka and Chittagong.

References

Satyaki Banerjee Wikipedia