| Debapriya Adhikary |
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Debapriya, an outstanding vocalist of the younger generation got his music nurtured and nourished from his very childhood at the hands of his mother Smt. Anita Adhikary. Seeing her child's interest she took him to Pt. Samaresh Chawdhury of Senia Gharana after she groomed her son the rudiments of Classical music. Debapriya also got a change in his approach towards music with the very guidance of Pt. Kumar Prasad Mukherjee Agra Atrauli Gharana whom he got for a very little time and then he got the guidance of Pt. Vijay Kichlu of the same gharana. Both enriched his gayaki with all the characteristic features of both Dhrupad and Khayal ang.
With a silken voice and uncanny command over the octaves his style of singing is marked by both elegance and grandeur that transcends the audience to a rare height of emotional excellence. Finally his continued taalim from the legendary Padmabhushan Girija Devi of Benaras Gharana has helped him acquire mastery on thumri, tappa, dadra, kajri, jhula etc alongwith the subtleties of khayal he gets from her. With all these Debapriya has earned a name and fame in his land and abroad. He is a regular artiste of AIR Kolkata, a topper with Masters in Music from University of Calcutta and empanelled with ICCR. He has been also performing duet of Vocal and Sitar with an excellent young sitarist maintaining the traditional way of Raag badhat with detailed alapchaari and other angas (phrases) of North Indian Classical music. Recently he composed music and performed live with Samanwaya Sarkar, for an Australian film "The Sleeping Warrior" about to be released worldwide in 2012. |