Name: Abhijit Pohankar
Brand: StarClinch
SKU: 16963b9ad17f
Rating: 4.0 (10 reviews)

Abhijit Pohankar is a professional singer based out of the finance capital of India, Mumbai. He is&nbsp;the face of new age Indian music. Music&nbsp;composer, producer,&nbsp;singer,&nbsp;and Indian classical keyboardist, Abhijit is&nbsp;one of the most versatile&nbsp;musician.&nbsp; Music runs in his blood as he&nbsp;is the son of the renowned classical vocalist maestro,&nbsp;Pt&nbsp;Ajay Pohankar.&nbsp;He is also&nbsp;trained&nbsp;in instrumental style of Indian music from world renowned santoor maestro,&nbsp;Pt&nbsp;Shivkumar Sharma. Perhaps,&nbsp;Abhijit is&nbsp;the only Indian to play Indian classical music on a keyboard.&nbsp; Abhijit came in&nbsp;to limelight with the&nbsp;success of his fusion/new age music album, &#39;Piya&nbsp;Bawari&#39; in 2002. It&nbsp;became one of the most popular songs in the history of Indian non-film music. The album remained in the top three charts of MTV. Abhijit is the pioneer of Indian lounge music. &#39;Piya&nbsp;Bawari&#39;&nbsp;went on the international level&nbsp;by its inclusion in the famous Buddha Bar&nbsp;in&nbsp;France.&nbsp; Abhijit has&nbsp;produced more than 20 albums worldwide&nbsp;with the most reputed labels like HMV, Times Music, Music Today, Universal Worldwide and&nbsp;Freespirit Records. His songs also&nbsp;have been compiled by some of the top international&nbsp;labels like Sounds&nbsp;True and Buddha Bar.&nbsp; Abhijit&#39;s music has elements of Indian traditional music fused with lounge and other world music sounds, and his music&nbsp;videos are the most&nbsp;exotic. The video of Piya Bawari was shot on the&nbsp;islands of Andaman and Nicobar and has&nbsp;won several awards.&nbsp; With the use of&nbsp;traditional classical melodies,&nbsp;Abhijit&nbsp;creates&nbsp;a&nbsp;unique style of&nbsp;music. His works have been appreciated by many&nbsp;well-known&nbsp;musicians. He thinks differently and&nbsp;presents his music in a&nbsp;stylish way. He is one of the first musicians to make Indian classical music accessible to the youngsters.&nbsp; He&nbsp;has also co-composed the title track for&nbsp;Amitabh&nbsp;Bachchan&#39;s&nbsp;&#39;Boom&#39;,&nbsp;along with the&nbsp;London-based percussionist, Talvin Singh.&nbsp;His song was picturised on the legendary Bo Derek and&nbsp;shot on the exotic beaches. Abhijit is a stage&nbsp;performer,&nbsp;having done many concerts all over the world,&nbsp;at&nbsp;the legendary&nbsp;venues like the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall. He&nbsp;has mesmerized audiences in India at some top&nbsp;concerts and events with his flamboyant&nbsp;performances and with some of the top musicians of the world. Abhijit has received many awards&nbsp;in India,&nbsp;like&nbsp;The Youth Icon of Music Award&nbsp;from&nbsp;Rotary Club,&nbsp;Della Technica Award for Excellence in Music, and also the Tata AV Max Award for the best music album, Piya Bawari in 2002.

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