Sandeep Chowta

Sandeep Chowta
Born	Ghana, Africa
Genres	Film music
Occupation(s)	Music director, vocalist
Years active	1996–present

Sandeep Chowta is an Indian music director who primarily works in Bollywood and Telugu cinema. He is also the head of Columbia Records in India. He has also sung some of his songs.

In 2003, he produced an anti substance abuse documentary, titled Dead End, that was entered into numerous film festivals and was government acclaimed. This was produced by seventeen-year-old college student and drug activist, Tanya Khubchandani.

In 2004 Chowta invited Jay Oliver and Richard Gannaway of the world/new age musical group, Aomusic (also known as AO), to his Mumbai studio, and has since become one of the group's contributing producers. Aomusic also features , the voice of Karl Jenkins' Adiemus project, and children's choral ensembles from around the globe. Aomusic album releases crediting Chowta have charted in the top five internationally since 2009.

When it comes to Tollywood, he composed music for 10 films of which Akkineni Nagarjuna is associated with 5 films in some or the other way and Mohan Babu has been involved with remaining 5 films.

Sandeep Chowta was born in Ghana, grew up in Nigeria and later Bangalore, India. He is the eldest son of D. K. Chowta, a Kannada author and businessman. His sister is ethnographer Prajna Chowta.

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