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Sunil Ganguly | |
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| Born | 1 January 1938 |
| Died | 12 June 1999 (aged 61) |
| Occupation | Steel Guitarist |
| Known for | Indian Instrumental Music |
| Children | Kaushik Ganguly |
| Relatives | Churni Ganguly (daughter-in-law) Ujaan Ganguly (grandson) |
| Awards | Asian Paints Shiromani award for contribution to music |
Sunil Ganguly (Bengali: সুনীল গাঙ্গুলি; 1 January 1938 – 12 June 1999) was an Indian instrumentalist from Kolkata. He popularized the Hawaiian electric guitar[1] in India. He made several albums with HMV India (now Saregama), Concorde Records, and Sagarika, with instrumental renditions of Hindi film music, classical songs,[2] Bengali film songs, modern songs, Nazrul Geeti, Rabindra Sangeet, and ghazals by composers like Mehdi Hassan, Ghulam Ali, Jagjit Singh, and Bade Ghulam Ali,.
Ganguly gave many public performances all over India, including in Kolkata, Mumbai, Delhi, Lucknow, Patna, Guwahati, and Agartala. He did one-man all-night shows in Mumbai and played in college festivals at the Indian Institutes of Technology and National Institutes of Technology. Musicians such as Y. S. Mulki, Dilip Roy, Samir Khasnabis, Swapan Sen, and Manohari Singh have accompanied him in recordings and performances. Ganguly was a regular performer on Doordarshan programs in Kolkata and Mumbai, as well as on All India Radio and Radio Ceylon.
- ^ Bechtel, Brad. "Indian Steel Guitar". Brad's Page of Steel. Well.com. Retrieved 20 April 2017.
- ^ Alexander, Deepa (2 June 2020). "Writer Shreya Sen-Handley becomes first Indian woman to pen an international opera". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 10 March 2021.