Kaushiki Chakraborty

Daughter of renowned vocalist Pandit Ajoy Chakraborty, Kaushiki has music in her blood. She breathes music twenty-four hours a day as she was born and brought up within the four walls of Sangeet Research Academy. Born in 1980, she could reproduce all musical and rhythmic phrases with ease by the time she became two years old. She learnt to play with the magical seven notes under her mother's guidance.

Kaushiki's formal classical training started at the age of seven when she became a student of Padmabhushan Deshikottam Guru Jnan Prakash Ghosh. At present she is learning from her father Pandit Ajoy Chakraborty at SRA as a scholar after going through the stringent eligibility tests of SRA in flying colors.

Kaushiki has participated in many concerts and conferences in India and abroad. She was well received in the USA, Canada in 1987 where she performed along with her father. On the 18th May 1997 she participated in the Spring Festival of Music, Pasadena (California), USA.

Her brilliant performances fetched her many awards and raving reviews. Salt Lake Cultural Association of Calcutta presented her coveted Jadu Bhatta Award in 1995. Pandit Bhimsen Joshi the living legend of Kirana-Indore gharana believes that Kaushiki is certainly going to make a mark as a classical vocalist in the 21st century.