Kaushiki Chakrabarty

b. 1980, Calcutta, India. The daughter of leading musicians Pandit Ajoy and Chandna Chakrabarty, Kaushiki was raised at the Sangeet Research Academy, which is where her father taught. She sang from the age of two, with her mother her first teacher, and also toured nationally and internationally with her father, sometimes singing at his concerts. From age 10 she studied with Gnan Prakash Ghosh, before beginning a period of study with her father at his Shrutinandan music school. Like her father, Chakrabarty performs one of the two major divisions of Indian classical music. Thi...