Debashish Bhattacharya

In 2018 he produced his daughter Anandi Bhattacharya’s first music album, Anandi Joys Abound.

Debashish recorded his first Global Fision album in 2012, released in 2013, featuring John McLaughlin, Jerry Douglas and his daughter Anandi Bhattacharya. In 2015, he released Slide Guitar Ragas from Dusk Till Dawn. First collaboration of Indian and Hawaiian music album, Hawaii to Calcutta brought him world music award 2017. Debashish Created new lap guitars in 2015, 2016 and 2018.

His most popular albums are: Mahima with Bob Brozman, and Calcutta Slide-Guitar, Vol. 3. Both of these albums are on Riverboat records and ranked in the top 10 of the Billboard World Music Charts. He was nominated for a 2009 Grammy Award in the category of Best Traditional World Music Album for his album Calcutta Chronicles.

Today he has more than 2000 students in India and other countries, and thousands of musicians, music directors, teachers, and followers who have been led to the new language of old traditional Indian music of Debashish.

His contemporaries composition started getting attracted by musicians and music lovers as well his new designing 14 string Gandharvi slide guitar brought a new lap Slide guitar in the world. In the year 1993 He has started performing extensively around the world. 2000-2001 He performed with Remember Shakti Band of John McLaughlin, Zakir Hussain and Mandolin U Shrinivas 2002 He created another Slide guitar a blend of ukulele and mandolin and named it after his Daughter.

Debashish Bhattacharya (Bengali: দেবাশীষ ভট্টাচার্য , Hindi: देवाशीष भट्टाचार्य , Devāśiṣ Bhaṭṭācārya, born 12 January 1963) is an Indian classical musician, singer, composer, introducer of first Slide Guitar Syllabus of the world, redefined Indian classical music on slide guitar through introducing new technique, new sound and new blend of tradition and unique contemporary designing of the music. A music producer who plays lap slide guitar, he has taught more than a thousand students, created a new genre (Hindustani Slide Guitar), and performed in more than two thousand concerts and workshops, with Grammy nominations and several world music awards.