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Over the years, great musicians have come and gone. The passing of every great one – singer, dancer, instrumentalist – gives rise to the anxious thought: Will there ever be another one like the one we have lost? Actually, the void can never be filled, because true greatness implies a uniqueness, an inimitability. So we wiil never again have the likes of Faiyaz Khan, Ghulam Ali Khan, Amir Khan, Kesarbai Kerkar.

But if the world of music becomes poorer by the passing away of all-time greats, it must correspondingly be enriched by the often unheralded emergence of a stella nova, a new star who arrives armed with the gifts of musicianship that make him shine with a special brilliance in a highly competitive field. Such a star is Ajoy Chakraborty. Ajoy has not only the good fortune to possess a voice that his own untiring efforts have endowed with an extraordinary depth and flexibility, but he has acquired that rarest of gifts – a mastery of form. In other words, Ajoy knows when to stop.

I have no doubt that Ajoy Chakraborty, who has already come a long way and displayed an admirable eclecticism, has much further to go along the path of the truly great.

Artists: 

Ajoy Chakraborty (Vocal), Samar Saha (Tabla), Sanjoy Chakravarty (Harmonium), Ramesh Mishra (Sarangi)