Soumik Datta

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Soumik Datta (born c. 1983) is a Bengali-born British Indian musician and composer, who specialises in the sarod. [1] He was born in Mumbai and brought up in London. [2] His brother is the photographer and filmmaker Souvid Datta.

Sons of banker father Soumilya and writer/art-house film director mother Sangeeta Datta, [3] [4] [5] Soumik and Souvid Datta both attended Harrow School and Soumik was trained in the sarod by Pandit Buddhadev Das Gupta, whom he called "grandfather". [2] He went on to University College London, then studied at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, graduating in 2009 with an MMus in Composition. [6] In 2006, he was invited by Jay-Z to play at the Royal Albert Hall and he subsequently performed on stage with Beyoncé, but declined an offer to join her on tour. [2]

Soumik Datta contributed to the musical scores of the films Brick Lane (2007), Life Goes On (2009), and Gangs of Tooting Broadway (2013).

In 2017, he curated a festival of music and dance at the Horniman Museum in London. [7] In the same year, he presented Tuning 2 You: Lost Musicians of India, a documentary directed by his brother Souvid. [8]

In June 2019, Datta performed at the Glastonbury Festival. Later in the year he was signed by Bucks Music Group. [9]

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  1. ↑ Maya Parmar (2019). Reading Cultural Representations of the Double Diaspora: Britain, East Africa, Gujarat. Springer. p. 170. ISBN   978-3-030-18083-6.
  2. 1 2 3 Victoria-Anne Bull (20 May 2014). "Soumik Datta: Where east meets west in music" . The Independent. Archived from the original on 2022-05-24. Retrieved 11 December 2019.
  3. ↑ "Soumik Datta: Where east meets west in music" . The Independent. 2014-05-20. Archived from the original on 2022-05-24. Retrieved 2020-07-31.
  4. ↑ "Sangeeta Datta in conversation on Rituparno Ghosh". The British Library. Retrieved 2020-07-31.
  5. ↑ Why India Votes?, Mukulika Banerjee, Routledge, 2017
  6. ↑ "Soumik Datta". Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. Retrieved 11 December 2019.
  7. ↑ "Festival of Music, Stories & Dance curated by Soumik Datta at the Horniman". Horniman Museum. Retrieved 11 December 2019.
  8. ↑ "Sony BBC Earth - SHOWS". www.sonybbcearth.com.
  9. ↑ "Bucks Signs Soumik Datta". M Magazine. 14 November 2019. Retrieved 11 December 2019.
  10. ↑ "Circle of Sound". Soumik Datta. Retrieved 11 December 2019.
  11. ↑ "Anti-hero". Soumik Datta. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
  12. ↑ "King of Ghosts". Soumik Datta. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
  13. ↑ "Jangal". Soumik Datta. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
  14. ↑ "Silent Spaces". Soumik Datta. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
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