World Raga: Chaturangui Master Class

BBC award winner and Grammy nominee Debashish Bhattacharya descends from a long line of musical talent. This master of world raga is a seventh-generation musician. 

"We Bhattacharyas, we learn music from sitting in our mother's womb," he says. 

In this wide-ranging interview with Michael Switow, Bhattacharya demonstrates the chaturangui -- a 22-string slide guitar, an instrument that he invented and popularised -- and talks about the music of Rabindranath Tagore. We also meet Bhattacharya's daughter, Sukanya, a singer with an angelic voice who is carrying on the family tradition. She performed on stage with her father for the first time in a concert sponsored by The Tagore Society in Singapore.

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Debashish and Sukanya Bhattacharya perform in Singapore