Swaraabhishek at Esplanade Recital Studio

Kaushiki Chakrabarty was a child prodigy. At age two, she could reproduce Hindustani classical vocal patterns; at age 12 she was a scholar at the ITC SRA; at age 14, she was on a 50-concert tour in the US with her father and guru Pandit Ajoy Chakrabarty, at age 16, she took the world of music by storm with her first solo concert in Delhi and by her early twenties she was being hailed as the brightest young female vocalist of her generation. Over the last decade, Kaushiki has established herself as one of the best vocalists of the Hindustani Classical genre. Connoisseurs agree that Kaushiki is, quite simply, the best Hindustani vocalist of her generation today. Kaushiki has recorded many albums and has received several prestigious awards, including the BBC award for outstanding achievement in 2005, and the Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Purashkar (awarded by the Government of India) in 2012.