Subhankar Banerjee (20 August 1966 – 25 August 2021) was an Indian musician and
tabla player of the
Farukhabad tradition.
Biography
He studied initially with Manik Das of the
Benares tradition before learning with
Swapan Siva of the Farukhabad tradition, which he is more associated with.
He regularly supported
Amjad Ali Khan
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Rashid Khan
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Birju Maharaj
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Hariprasad Chaurasia
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Shivkumar Sharma
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on stage. He was also a tabla soloist.
Banerjee contracted
COVID-19
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in June 2021. He died a few months later in August, five days after his 55th birthday.
See also
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Yogesh Samsi
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Early life
Yogesh Samsi was born in Delhi to renowned vocalist Pandit Dinkar Kaikini. Yogesh's father introduced him to music at the age of four. At the age of four he star ...
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Kumar Bose
Pandit Kumar Bose (Bangla পন্ডিত কুমার বোস), born 4 April 1953, is an Indian tabla musician and composer of Indian classical music.
Family
Bose was born in Kolkata in a musical family. His father, Biswanath Bose, a t ...
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Swapan Chaudhuri
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Anindo Chatterjee
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As director of the Farrukhabad gharana of Tabla, founded by Haji ...
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Zakir Hussain
References
External links
Official site
1966 births
2021 deaths
Musicians from Kolkata
Indian drummers
Hindustani instrumentalists
Tabla players
Indian male classical musicians
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in India
Farrukhabad gharana
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