Hindustani classical · born 1969
Pandit Sanjeev Abhyankar
A Mewati gharana vocalist trained by Pandit Jasraj, equally at home in khayal and devotional song.
- Instrument
- Khayal vocal
- Gharana
- Mewati gharana
- Born
- 5 October 1969, Pune, Maharashtra, India
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Khayal recital — 150th Harivallabh Sangeet Sammelan
Performed 2025-12-28 · 2:13:16 · Harivallabh Sangeet Sammelan Official
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Biography
Life
Sanjeev Abhyankar was born in Pune on 5 October 1969 to Shobha Abhyankar, a musicologist and teacher of the Mewati gharana, who gave him his first training from the age of eight. He went on to study with Pandit Gangadharbua Pimpalkhare of the Gwalior gharana, and later with Pandit Jasraj in the Mewati tradition.
He gave his first stage performance in Mumbai in 1981, at the age of eleven, and has since recorded more than sixty solo albums and performed in over two hundred cities. Alongside concert khayal he sings abhanga, bhajan and Sanskrit devotional compositions, and has worked as a playback singer in Hindi and Marathi films.
Musical contribution
What they brought to music
He works across khayal and the lighter devotional forms — Marathi abhanga and Hindi and Sanskrit bhajan — carrying the Mewati emphasis on bhava and the sung text into both.
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Mewati gharanaborn 1969
A leading contemporary Mewati singer.
Taught in this tree by: Jasraj
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Teachers and gurus
- Pandit Gangadharbua PimpalkhareTeacher
Gwalior gharana teacher with whom he studied before Pandit Jasraj.
Sanjeev Abhyankar — Wikipedia 
Pandit JasrajTeacherTrained him in the Mewati gharana.
Sanjeev Abhyankar — Wikipedia
Family
- Shobha AbhyankarMother and first teacher
Musicologist and teacher of the Mewati gharana who gave him his first training.
Sanjeev Abhyankar — Wikipedia
Recognition
Honours and recognition
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- 1998National Film Award for Best Male Playback SingerFor "Suno Re Bhaila" in the film Godmother.
- 2009Kumar Gandharva Samman
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Photograph by Joe Mabel, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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