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Acharya Jayanta Bose
Background information
Born	(1956-06-28) 28 June 1956 Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Genres	Hindustani classical and Semi-classical music
Occupations	Music educator, vocalist, harmonium soloist, tabla player, composer, lyricist
Instruments	Vocals, harmonium, tabla

Jayanta Bose (born 1956) is an Hindustani classical musician, composer, and music educator.

Family

Bose was born to Biswanath Bose, a Benaras gharana tabla exponent, and the sitarist Bharati Bose. He, along with his brothers Kumar Bose and Debojyoti Bose, belong to the fourth generation of the Bose musical family. His daughter, Maahirii Bose, is a musician and a film director.

Career

Bose has collaborated with Nitin Sawhney, and has performed at international stages and events such as the Ocean music venue, Royal Albert Hall, Victoria and Albert museum, and Montreux Jazz Festival in Miles Davis Hall. He is credited as the featured vocalist for several of Sawhney's albums such as Displacing the Priest (1996), Mercury prize nominee Beyond Skin (1999), Prophesy (2001) and Human (2003). He was also featured as a percussionist and vocalist in Renaud-Gabriel Pion’s experimental jazz album New York Sketches. He has performed at the Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, giving an hour-long vocal rendition of his self-created raga Sohagranjani.

Bose has performed at musical conferences and festivals such as the North Kolkata music meet, Girija Devi sur festival, and Malhar music festival. He, along with his brothers, have performed at various music venues such as Kala Mandir and Girish Mancha, as a collaborative musical trio known as Bosensation. Some of the recitals are recorded in the audiovisual archives of The Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR-750-VHS). The trio also launched a scholarship for young musicians. Bose has accompanied musicians such as Amjad Ali Khan on the tabla.

Bose has composed experimental works, including Bengali khyals and a Bengali opera. In cinema, his compositions include the song "The Boatman" for Mira Nair's film The Namesake, and he scored the Bengali film Bhagshesh (2018). His unreleased compositions were sung by several singers in the archival music series Acharya Pariwar, which was inaugurated by Tanmoy Bose with an harmonium solo, while Bose accompanied him on the tabla. He was formally felicitated on his 60th birthday with a concert, where singers such as Indrani Sen and Manomay Bhattacharya sang his compositions, while Tanmoy Bose and Tejendra Narayan Majumdar rendered a jugalbandi based on a raga and tala created by Bose.

Bose has publicly stated that after a 12-year international music career, he has shifted his focus from touring and performing to teaching music, and he established his own academy in 2002.