Suresh Choudhury

A 55-years-old artist from Mathura, Suresh Choudhury, has been learning music through folk form. He never had any formal music training but took dholak lessons taking inspiration from Chaman Nagar. He has been working hard towards achieving mastery in his craft and pursues it with soaring passion. He considers Chaman Nagar, and Jagdish Brijwasi as his gurus speaks very highly of their teaching and achievements in the field of music. He draws all his inspiration from them and mostly accompanies them in their performances. He plays traditional melodies of Braj and has never tried composing something of his own. He loves music unconditionally. Soon after completing his 6th standard, he devoted his life to music by taking lessons and participating in jagrans and bhajan mandalis. When he was in his youth, he would try to imitate the musicians of his village and thus picked up the Dholak & manjira and never stopped learning. Apart from being a proficient Manjira player, he plays the Dholak and is also a chorus singer. He has performed in various locations within the state and the country. He has received a lot of love and appreciation in all his performances and pulled off brilliant performances at festivals in Chennai, Madras, Kolkata, Agra, Delhi to mesmerize the crowd. For his best performance, he considers the one in Delhi & Chennai as the most memorable experience. He lives with his wife, one daughter & two sons. Thus, he also has to work as a tailor to make ends meet. Despite all his struggles, he strives to keep developing his craft and aspires someday, in the future, to see himself succeed through the art that he loves so much. He also says, “I wish to make music full time, my heart has always been into it, nothing else other than music has attracted me, so in my humble possible way I am trying my best to give more time to the music.”

• Braj
• Uttar Pradesh