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Pandit Debu Chaudhuri: A âMridubhashiâ Stalwart of the Jaipur-Senia Tradition
For him, the love of music was purely a matter of personal interest even as he walked into a sitar class in his village school that started a love affair which lasted a lifetime, and indeed beyond.
Pandit Debu Chaudhuri. Photo: Bharat Tiwari
Pandit Devabrata (Debu) Chaudhuri was born in 1935 to businessman Bishweshwar Chaudhuri and Hiran Bala Devi in Ramgopalpur in present-day Bangladesh. In an interview to RSTV, he had said, âWe did not have any musicians in our family⦠even in the extended network, across generations!” For him, the love of music was purely a matter of personal interest even as he walked into a sitar class in his village school that started a love affair which lasted a lifetime, and indeed beyond.
A link to the Senia tradition is broken
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Pt. Debu Chaudhury, who passed away recently, made it his life’s aim to popularise the gharana
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Pt. Debu Chaudhury, who passed away recently, made it his life’s aim to popularise the gharana
Renowned sitarist Pt. Debabrata Chaudhury, disciple of Ustad Mushtaq Ali Khan of Senia Gharana, who passed away recently, was affectionately called Debu da by the music fraternity. A well-known musicologist, author and academician, Prof. Debu Chaudhury retired as the Dean, Faculty of Music and Fine Arts, Delhi University.