The biography of Pandit Tushar Dutta was obtained from the ‘Baajaa Gaajaa’ website.
Born in a musical family, Tushar Dutta started learning the fundamentals of Hindustani classical music at an early age from Bimal Mitra of Durgapur.
Groomed as a scholar at the famous ITC Sangeet Research Academy, he took lessons from A.Kanan and Arun Bhaduri, two eminent maestros of the Kirana gharana. Later, he received training from Sunil Bose and K.G. Ginde of Agra gharana. Presently, Tushar is under the guidance of well-known vocalist Subhra Guha.
Tushar was selected as a grade ‘A’ artiste, for khayal and bhajan by All India Radio in 1996. He also took part in the National Concert of All India Radio. In 1998, Tushar stood first in khayal at the All India University competition in Banaras. He got the National Scholarship from the Ministry of Culture, Government of India. He was nominated for the Ananda Sangeet Puroskar by Ananda Bazar Group of Publications, as one of the best new singers of Bengali songs. Tushar has received the Surmani title from Sur Singer Samsad of Mumbai. He has a number of music albums to his credit, released by various record labels.
He has performed at many prestigious music conferences all over India and abroad.
Tushar Dutta is one of the music trainers for a radio programme on learning classical music “SuraSabha” presented on Gyanbani F.M., Kolkata.
The recordings below are from a Kirtan program but we do not have any details of the recordings. If anyone knows where these Shabads were sung, please let us know. These recordings were kindly contributed by S.S. Bhullar. Please ‘right click’ and ‘save link as’ to download audio files. Enjoy!
Pandit Tushar Dutta – 01 Mere Lalan Ki Sobha
ਵਾਹਿਗੁਰੂ ਜੀ ਕਾ ਖਾਲਸਾ ll ਵਾਹਿਗੁਰੂ ਜੀ ਕੀ ਫਤਹਿ ਜੀ ll pandit ji ਆਪ ਜੀ ਕੇ ਆਵਾਜ਼ ਮੇਂ ਸ਼੍ਰੀ ਗੁਰੂ ਬਾਣੀ ਸੁਣਨਾ ਬਹੁਤ ਅੱਛਾ ਲੱਗਾ ਜੀ ll Very divine and sweet rendition ll
” WAHEGURU WAHEGURU ”
God Almighty has blessed
Pandit ji with HIS Kripa.
He has such a sweet, melodious and soothing voice.
His pronunciation of GURBANI
is very good , and his singing is
full of passion. God bless him.
These are recordings from a programme “Gavhe Sachhi Bani” organised at the Talkatora Garden, New Delhi, by the Govt.of Delhi. Around 2007.