My Respect Guruji Guitarist SUNIL GANGULY HappyBirthday "SHRADDHANJALI" In His House - 01/01/2018

Описание: My Respect Guruji Eminent Hawaiian Steel Guitarist SUNIL GANGULY - Happy Birthday "SHRADDHANJALI" In House 01/01/2018 At Garia Kolkata ..
Sunil Ganguly Born 1st January 1938 .. Died 12th June 1999 (Aged 61) Kolkata .. Nationality Indian .. Occupation Steel Guitarist Known For Indian Instrumental Music .. Awards Asian Paints Shiromoni Award Contribution Of Music .. I'm Big Fan & Lover Of My Respect Guruji Sunil Ganguly Guitar Instrumental Hawaiian Steel Guitar Record CD 78 RPM SP EP Super 7 LP Discs Audio Cassettes & CDs HMV Concord Records & Sagarika Including Classical Based Songs, Bengali Songs & Popularised The Hawaiian Guitar..Sunil Ganguly (Bengali: সুনীল গাঙ্গুলি; 1 January 1938 – 12 June 1999) was an Indianinstrumentalist from the city of Kolkata (Calcutta) who played the Hawaiian electric guitar.[1] He produced many 78 RPM, SP, EP, Super-7, LP discs, audio cassettes and CDs from HMV, Concord Records and Sagarika including classical-based songs like "Yaad piya ki aaye". He made records of Indian Hindi film songs, classical based songs, and Bengali songs, and popularised the Hawaiian guitar in India, with his unique style and his accurate renditions enabled by his background in classical music. His renditions often had subtle twists and turns that made it even more melodious than the original song. At his peak, there used to be two LPs released during the Pujas every year by HMV, one containing songs by Lata Mangeshkar, and the other having instrumentals by Sunil Ganguly.[2] The film hits he recorded were instant hits with the youth.[3] Sunil Ganguly did many public performances all over India, including Kolkata, Mumbai, Delhi, Lucknow, Patna, Guwahati etc, including programs in classical music. He did one-man whole night shows in Mumbai, played in reputed College fests like the IITs, RECs. Some of the best musicians of the era, like Sri Y S Mulki, Sri Dilip Roy, Sri Samir Khasnabis, Sri Swapan Sen, Sri Manohari Singh accompanied him on his recordings and performances. He was a regular performer at Doordarshan programs (TV) in Kolkata and Mumbai, AIR (All India Radio),[4] Radio Ceylon (Sri Lanka). His radio programs (like Saaz aur Awaz on Radio Ceylon[5][6]) were popular and were listened to by many all over India, and this program continues to this date. He inspired an entire young generation to play Indian music on the Hawaiian guitar. He had many number of successful students, who are continuing his style of playing songs and in turn are coaching students in India and abroad.[7][8]
Ganguly was born at Sonamura village in Tripura on 1 January 1938.[9] He moved with his parents to Kolkata in his childhood. He had a fondness for the Hawaiian guitar from a very early age. At the insistence of his relatives he participated in All India Youth Guitar competition which was quite well known at the time, and came first, to his own amazement, by playing 'Kya karoon Sajani, Aye na Balam'. Present at the competition was Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan. He was so moved by the rendition, he went up on the stage and embraced Sunil Ganguly and expressed his amazement at how such a song could be rendered on the Guitar. He then recommended Sunil Ganguly's name to All India Radio / Akashvani with a letter, and this is how Sunil Ganguly started playing on radio.[10] At this time he trained in Western music under Oscar Jones, a reputed teacher in Calcutta at that time. But this could not satisfy him. He was fond of Indian classical music, and used to attend the music conferences. Many a times he could not afford to buy a ticket, and hence used to listen from the pavements outside (as narrated by him in his last interview to Bartamanmagazine). He later trained under the sitarist Pt. Ajoy Sinha Roy, who himself was a direct disciple of Baba Alauddin Khan. Ganguly, therefore, had a profound knowledge of North Indian Classical music. He developed a style of playing Classical Raga-based dhuns and gats on the Hawaiian guitar, which was his own unique style. He was the first to bring in the 'gayaki' style of playing which was non-existent at the time, and this led to the huge popularity of the instrumentals he rendered on the Hawaiian guitar, be it classical based film songs,[11] ghazals, Tagore songs, Nazrul songs, or other popular songs. He played a wide variety of songs in his career, including Hindi film songs, rare songs of Lata Mangeshkar, Ghazals, by Jagjit Singh, Mehdi Hassan, Ghulam Ali, Bengali film songs, Tagore songs, Nazrulgeeti, Bengali songs of prominent composers like Satinath Mukhopadhyay, Shyamal Mitra, Hemanta Mukherjee, Bihu songs in Assamese language[12] etc.[13][14] He made many number of compositions and dhuns based on various Ragas, and he used these to train his students for number of years before they were allowed to play a song.[15] Ganguly also had a sharp background of Western music, including chords. He was very fond of the Spanish guitar and chords. Whenever he used to teach a song to his students