Jhinuk Chattopadhyay was born and brought up in Kolkata. She showed keen interest in music from the tender age and had a tendancy to imitate classical based songs like Bhajans and Thumris when she was only two years old. It initiated her parents to think about giving her a proper talim in Hindusthani classical music and her journey to the depth and delicacies of the classical music began there. At the age of five, she started learning Sa Re Ga Ma under the tulelage of Smt. Bandana Majumdar, one of the most prominent disciples of famous Anath Nath Bose. Her intense talim under Smt. Majumdar in Benaras Gharana over a period of eighteen years not only taught her the typical filigree pattern of tankari but also the immaculate and dramatic phrasing of Banarasi Thumri, Chaiti and Kajri which she imbibed in her khayal gayaki. After she left Kolkata, She had the opportunity to get her talim from Shri Vikhubhai Bhavsar and Shri. Harishbhai Bhavsar in Gujarat for several years. Pt. Vikhubhai is the disciple of Shri. Kashinath Tulpule of Gwalior and Pt. Maniramji of Mewati gharana. Here she learned the characteristics of both the gharanas which matured her gayaki. Her musical career took a dramatic turn when her quest for bahlawa brought her in touch with Pt. Kumar Prasad Mukhopadhyay, an intellectual, author of several books on music, a disciple of Padmashree Ustad Mushtaq Hussain Khan of Gwalior/Sahaswan gharana and Ustad Latafat Hussain Khan Of Agra gharana, a singer par excellence and stalwart of Agra gharana. She bacame his disciple and her regular and arduous talim started under him. Alaap and Jod-alaap in dhrupad-ang, bahlawa, bol-baat and layakari, the different and diverse angs of khayal which achieved an unique balance over years in Agra gharana influenced and developed her gayaki. She has performed in various programmes in Kolkata, Arunachal Pradesh, various places in Gujarat and Nagpur and has earned praises and ashirvads from some of the great maestros and doyens of Indian Classical music. She believes that music is to be learned throughout the life and a musician is essentially an eternal student who seeks for the absolute truth through the marg of music. She has done her Masters in English Literature and is presenly living in Nagpur.
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