Pandit Sanjeev Abhyankar is a Hindustani classical music vocalist of the Mewati Gharana.
Background
Sanjeev Abhyankar was born on October 5, 1969 in Pune, India to Doctor Shobha Abhyankar. He started learning Hindustani Classical Music, at the age of eight, groomed by his mother, and her guru Pandit Pimpalkhare and later from Pandit Jasraj.
Career
Though his aim had been to pursue a career in music since childhood, he has acquired a Bachelor"s Degree in Commerce. Sanjeev Abhyankar rendered his first stage performance in Mumbai, at the age of 11 in 1981. Since then, he has traveled extensively all over the country and abroad.
He has several albums with HMV, Music Today, Sony Music, Times Music, Navaras Records United Kingdom, Neelam Audio Video United States.A., Sona Rupa United Kingdom, BMG Cressendo, Ninaad Music, Fountain Music & Alurkar Music.
He has also given playback for films such as Maachis, Nidaan, Sanshodhan, Dil Pe Mat Le Yaar and Banaras. He has a distinction of performing in over 200 different cities all over the Globe.
He is a wonderful classical composer and has set tune to a large number of bandishes and devotional songs. Many of his compositions are free downloadable on his website www.sanjeevabhyankar.com He also specializes in jugalbandi (duet singing) and has performed jugalbandis with Shankar Mahadevan, Kala Ramnath, Ashwini Bhide Deshpande, Shashank Subramanian, Rakesh Chaurasia to name a few.