Biography

Sunil Ganguly (1 January 1938 – 12 June 1999) was an Indian instrumentalist from the city of Calcutta who played the Hawaiian electric guitar. He created many albums from HMV India, now Saregama India, Concorde Records, Sagarika, during his long career (1957—1999) with his instrumental renditions of Indian Hindi film songs, Classical based songs, ghazals of prominent composers like Mehdi Hassan, Ghulam Ali, Jagjit Singh, Bade Ghulam Ali, Bengali film songs and modern songs, Nazrulgeeti, Rabindrasangeet (Songs of Tagore) and popularised the Hawaiian guitar in India. Sunil Ganguly did many public performances all over India, including Calcutta, Bombay, Delhi, Lucknow, Patna, Guwahati, Agartala etc. He did one-man whole night shows in Mumbai, played in College fests like the IITs, Regional Engineering Colleges. He had a big group of musicians accompanying him on his performances, like Sri Y S Mulki, Sri Dilip Roy, Sri Samir Khasnabis, Sri Swapan Sen, Sri Manohari Singh accompanied him on his recordings and performances. He was a regular performer at Doordarshan programs (TV) in Calcutta and Bombay, AIR (All India Radio), Radio Ceylon.