Sanjeeta Bhattacharya

Sanjeeta Bhattacharya is a Grammy-nominated Indian singer, songwriter and actor.

A graduate of Berklee College of Music, she has been a part of festivals such as Panama Jazz Festival, Hornbill Festival, NH7 Weekender and Magnetic Fields Festival. As part of her personal project, she has released a series of singles and her track, "Everything’s Fine?" put her on Spotify's global emerging artist program, RADAR in July 2020. Her first international collaboration was with Malagasy singer Niu Raza called ‘Red’. Sanjeeta debuted as an actor in the Netflix series "Feels Like Ishq" on July 23, 2021.

Bhattacharya is also known for her performance that paid tribute to A. R. Rahman at Berklee College of Music in 2014 featuring 109 performers from 32 countries. A. R. Rahman was awarded an honorary doctorate from Berklee College of Music at that event.

Personal life and education

Bhattacharya was born in a Bengali Family in New Delhi, India. She is the daughter of artist Sanjay Bhattacharya and also belongs to a Bangladeshi mother. She graduated from Berklee College of Music, known for the study of jazz and modern American music. Sanjeeta is often referred to as an up-and-coming jazz musician, but she prefers to avoid categorizing her music. She stated during the interview with The Times of India that:

I have roots in Indian classical Hindustani music. In school, I sang RnB, pop, choir music and so on. After which I explored many more genres like flamenco, Balkan folk, Latin American music etc and all of these reflect the music I make.

Musical style

Her music weaves influences from R&B, Indie folk and Latin styles with multi-lingual lyrics to create stories around myriad personal experiences.

Discography

Web series

Films

Other works

Sanjeeta was a TEDx speaker at TEDx, Pune.