Kaushiki Chakraborty

Quick Facts

Full Name	Kaushiki Chakraborty
Occupation	World Music Singer
Date Of Birth	Oct 24, 1980(1980-10-24)
Age	44
Birthplace	Kolkata
Country	India
Birth City	West Bengal
Horoscope	Libra

Kaushiki Chakraborty Biography

Kaushiki Chakraborty is one of the most popular and richest World Music Singer who was born on October 24, 1980 in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. Indian classical singer whose repertoire includes both Khyals as well as the Thumris genres. She has released many smash singles like “Kichhu Kichhu Kotha,” “Chillendra Chillendra” and “Amar Aponar Cheye.”

She co-wrote the song with music producer She collaborated on a song with composer and music director Shantanu Moitra..

Kaushiki Chakraborty (Bengali: কৌশিকী চক্রবর্তী ; born 24 October 1980) is an Indian classical vocalist and the daughter of Ajoy Chakraborty. Groomed at Sangeet Research Academy, she is one of the exponents of Patiala gharana. Her repertoire covers Khyals and ‘semi-classical’ Thumris. She is the recipient 2005 BBC Radio 3 Awards for World Music in the Asia-Pacific category. She has held performances with her husband Parthasarathi Desikan.

Chakraborty has been the recipient of many awards. She received the Jadu Bhatta award in 1995, favourably mentioned and appreciated after her opening song at the 27th annual ITC Sangeet Sammelan in New Delhi in 1998, and received Outstanding Young Person in 2000. She received the BBC Award (2005) for outstanding achievement in music when she was 25 years old. On receiving this award she was praised “as one of the brightest emerging artists in Indian vocal music” and as critic Ken Hunt said “we are talking superlatives”. BBC also made a short film featuring her musical journey – which covered people and places linked with her music. She has also received Sangeet Natak Academy’s Ustad Bismillah Khan Puraskar 2010 for Hindustani Vocal Music, and the 2013 Aditya Birla Kalakiran Puraskar. she has also received “Shera Bangali Samman 2017” by ABP ANANDA

She has a father named Ajoy has a name that is well known as a singer while her mother’s title is Chandana. She got married to singer Parthasarathi Desikan in 2004. The couple has a child called Rishith.

Kaushiki Chakraborty Net Worth

Kaushiki Chakraborty is one of the richest World Music Singer from India. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Kaushiki Chakraborty 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

She completed her master’s program in the field of philosophy at Jadavpur University.

She hosts an ongoing talk show on a weekly basis named Gaan-Golpo Gaan.

Chakraborty was born in 1980 in Kolkata. She is the daughter of Chandana Chakraborty and the renowned Indian classical singer Pt. Ajoy Chakraborty. From the age of two she had an interest in music. She accompanied her father on world tours of music performances since the late 1980s. She sung her first song in public, a tarana, at age 7, at the Calcutta Rowing Club. At age ten, she started learning Indian classical music at the academy of Jnan Prakash Ghosh who was also her father’s guru, later joined ITC Sangeet Research Academy from where she graduated in 2004, and was also groomed by her father. Vijay Kichlu, director of the academy fine tuned her skill in rendering Khyal. She also trained under her father at his Shrutinandan school of music in Kolkata. She has not only specialized in rendering of Khyals and Thumri but she has also learned South Indian Classical music from Vidwan Balamurali Krishna from 2002. She completed her schooling at Patha Bhavan school, Kolkata. In 2002, she graduated from the Jogamaya Devi College, an affiliated undergraduate women’s college of the University of Calcutta, in Kolkata with a first class degree in philosophy. She did her master’s degree in philosophy from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, with top honours.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Who is Kaushiki Chakraborty Dating?

According to our records, Kaushiki Chakraborty married to Parthasarathi Desikan. As of December 1, 2023, Kaushiki Chakraborty’s is not dating anyone.

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Chakraborty has formed an exclusive women’s musical group called the “Sakhi” (meaning friend) which is a forerunner in classical music in the country to “celebrate womanhood” and as a dedication to the famous mythological and historical woman of India – Ganga, Saraswati, Durga, Lakshmi, Draupadi, Kunti, Sita, Radha and Meera. The first programme of the group was planned to be held on 20 January 2015 at Kalamandir, Mumbai. Kaushiki was the vocalist and the other members of this group were Shaoni Talwalkar on the tabla, Mahima Upadhyay on the pakhwaj, Debopriya Chatterjee on flute, Nandini Shankar on the violin while the Kathak dance performance was to be performed by Bhakti Deshpande. They are daughters or grand daughters or disciples of famous Hindustani musicians. Chakraborty presented this musical ensemble with her group at the Carnegie Hall in October 2015; the programme was of 90 minutes duration.

Facts & Trivia

Kaushiki Ranked on the list of most popular World Music Singer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in India. Kaushiki Chakraborty celebrates birthday on October 24 of every year.

Who is kaushiki Chakraborty's husband?

Parthasarathi Desikan

Where is parthasarathi desikan from?

Parthasarathi Desikan Born in a music-loving family from South India , settled in Kolkata, Parthasarathi was initiated into music by Deepti Mukherjee, a disciple of Pandit Vinayakrao Patwardhan of the Gwalior gharana. He later came under the tutelage of Pandit Ajoy Chakrabarty.

What is the age of kaushiki Chakraborty?

41 years (October 24, 1980)

What does kaushiki mean?

Kaushiki (Sanskrit: कौशिकी, romanized: Kauśikī, lit. ‘ woman of the cell ‘,) is a Hindu goddess, a deity who emerged from the sheath of Parvati. She was created before Parvati’s conflict with the asura brothers Sumbha and Nisumbha, and was also the reason the Matrikas come into existence.