Tanmoy Bose
| Tanmoy Bose তন্ময় বোস |
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Pt.Tanmoy Bose during his recent performance at Kolkata Fusion Fiesta 2013
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| Background information | |
| Born | 23 August 1963 |
| Origin | Kolkata, West Bengal, India |
| Genres | Hindustani classical music, jazz fusion |
| Occupation(s) | Tabla Maestro and Composer |
| Instruments | Tabla, Frame Drums, Harmonium and Vocal |
| Years active | 1963–present |
| Labels | HMV, Music Today, EMI, Bol Records, Asha Audio, Times Music |
| Associated acts | Dhwani, Moksh, Taaltantra, Taaltantra Experience, Veshtantra, Baul & Beyond, Sound of Soil, Rock Qawali |
| Website |
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Tanmoy Bose (Bengali: তন্ময় বোস; born 23 August 1963) is an Indian percussionist and tabla player, besides being a musical producer, film actor and composer, who collaborated with Pandit Ravi Shankar, Anoushka Shankar and Amjad Ali Khan, and created the musical group, Taaltantra in 2002.
He was born and raised in Kolkata, and studied at the South Point High School and subsequently graduated from the Scottish Church College. He received his musical education at the early age of seven and started learning vocal music from Pandit Maharaj Baneejee and harmonium from Pandit Mantu Banerjee subsequently learning tabla. His serious training in the traditional Guru Shishya Parampara started with Pandit Kanai Dutta, after the untimely death of his first guru Tanmoy became a GANDA BANDH shagird (disciple) of Pandit Shankar Ghosh.
Tanmoy has performed extensively with some of the greatest musicians of Indian Classical Music all over the world like Ustad Munawar Ali Khan, Pandit V.G Jog, Ustad Imrat Khan, and many others.
This ace globe-trotting new age percussionist has been performing with the musical legend, Padma Bhushan Ustad Amjad Ali Khan from as early as his college days. Another great milestone in Tanmoy Bose’s life was achieved when Ravi Shankar invited him to play regularly with him around the world; he would spend almost half of the year traveling with the legendary maestro. Tanmoy has been an ardent researcher and composer.
His long tours abroad had given him opportunities to interact and play with musicians, composers, choreographers and the like he put to very good use his rich experience acquired hereby and created Beyond Borders, Chaturang Moksh, Taalyagna etc., based on the virtues of Indian Rhythm and Dance nuances. In 2002 his world music project Taaltantra - showcasing familiar sounds through unfamiliar mediums, cross cultural rhythm and devices won the hearts of connoisseurs and critics alike. He is acknowledged as one of the foremost musicians to have started the movement of initiating folk songs and tribal drumming into band format. Designing a musical filigree between traditional Folk and Indian Classical along with time less Jazz and South American drumming.
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