Sanjay Chakrabarty is a sound designer, classical singer, a sitar maestro, a harmonium accompanist, an established music composer, a music therapist and a poet based at Kolkata

Kolkata

Kolkata , formerly known as Calcutta, is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal. Located on the east bank of the Hooghly River, it was the commercial capital of East India...

, India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

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Biography

Sanjay Chakrabarty was born in Shyamnagar

Shyamnagar

Shyamnagar Upazila is a small town and the largest thana of Bangladesh with an area of 1968.24 km². It has many beautiful places including some part of the Sundarban, the largest mangrove forest in the world.-Location:...

, West Bengal

West Bengal

West Bengal is a state in the eastern region of India and is the nation's fourth-most populous. It is also the seventh-most populous sub-national entity in the world, with over 91 million inhabitants. A major agricultural producer, West Bengal is the sixth-largest contributor to India's GDP...

 to Ajit Chakrabarty

Ajit Chakrabarty

Ajit Chakrabarty was a noted music composer and music educationalist based in Shyamnagar who has recently died.-Biography:Ajit Chakrabarty was originally based in Mymensingh, Bangladesh but was forced to take refuge in Shyamnagar, India during the partition. He took up various jobs including cattle...

. He was brought educated in Amar Krishna Pathshala, Bhatpara

Bhatpara

Bhatpara is a city and a municipality under Jagatdal police station of Barrackpore subdivision in North 24 Parganas district in the state of West Bengal, India. It is situated on the bank of Hoogly river. It is mainly known for its rich traditions in the field of Sanskrit learning...

 in his initial years. In his formative years, he was in close contact with legendary author Samaresh Basu

Samaresh Basu

Samaresh Basu was an Indian Bengali writer based in Kolkata, India. He was born on December 11, 1924 and spent his early childhood in Dhaka, Bikrampur in what is today Bangladesh...

. He graduated from University of Calcutta

University of Calcutta

The University of Calcutta is a public university located in the city of Kolkata , India, founded on 24 January 1857...

 with Honours in Bengali Literature

Bengali literature

Bengali literature is literary works written in Bengali language particularly from Bangladesh and the Indian provinces of West Bengal and Tripura. The history of Bengali literature traces back hundreds of years while it is impossible to separate the literary trends of the two Bengals during the...

, after a stint with physiology

Physiology

Physiology is the science of the function of living systems. This includes how organisms, organ systems, organs, cells, and bio-molecules carry out the chemical or physical functions that exist in a living system. The highest honor awarded in physiology is the Nobel Prize in Physiology or...

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Career

He started as a tabla

Tabla

The tabla is a popular Indian percussion instrument used in Hindustani classical music and in popular and devotional music of the Indian subcontinent. The instrument consists of a pair of hand drums of contrasting sizes and timbres...

 solo performer, but was soon to be seen as Harmonium

Harmonium

A harmonium is a free-standing keyboard instrument similar to a reed organ. Sound is produced by air being blown through sets of free reeds, resulting in a sound similar to that of an accordion...

 accompanist to maestroes such as Bhimsen Joshi

Bhimsen Joshi

Pandit Bhimsen Gururaj Joshi ; February 4, 1922 - January 24, 2011) was an Indian vocalist in the Hindustani classical tradition. A member of the Kirana Gharana , he is renowned for the khayal form of singing, as well as for his popular renditions of devotional music...

, Kishori Amankar and Ullhas Koshalkar. He then switched to composition, lyrics and concurrently, research on music therapy

Music therapy

Music therapy is an allied health profession and one of the expressive therapies, consisting of an interpersonal process in which a trained music therapist uses music and all of its facets—physical, emotional, mental, social, aesthetic, and spiritual—to help clients to improve or maintain their...

. After many years of performing as a vocalist, and as a composer and music director, he founded his own NGO, Vyaas in 2009. He is dedicated to rejuventaing the Indian heritage and way of life with his own recipe of music.

Family

Sanjay is the son of Ajit Chakrabarty

Ajit Chakrabarty

Ajit Chakrabarty was a noted music composer and music educationalist based in Shyamnagar who has recently died.-Biography:Ajit Chakrabarty was originally based in Mymensingh, Bangladesh but was forced to take refuge in Shyamnagar, India during the partition. He took up various jobs including cattle...

 and Jayanti Chakrabarty, and the younger brother of Ajoy Chakraborty

Ajoy Chakraborty

Pandit Ajoy Chakrabarty is an Indian Hindustani classical vocalist. He belongs to the Patiala gharana.-Early life and background:Chakrabarty was born in Bengal to Ajit Chakrabarty in a Hindu Brahmin family. They moved to India from his homeland, Bangladesh during the partition and raised his two...

. Sanjay is married to Reshmi Chakrabarty, nee Roychowdhury, since 1998.