Gautam Ghosh was born in Calcutta on 30th July 1962. Having moved to New Delhi in 1972, he lives here now but the occasional tour takes him to many exotic places in India & abroad.
In 1983, he majored in English Literature from the prestigious Hindu College & then studied Law but quit in his final year to pursue his passion-MUSIC…..& has not looked back since.
While in Hindu, he performed professionally in his college band ‘GRAFFITTI’ & then got on to form his first Rock band ‘WHITE FANG’ with whom he sang all covers & a few originals till they disbursed in 1983 after acquiring legendary rock status. By then he was ‘hooked’. Many other acts & experiments followed , but the ‘addiction’ for originals made him realise that he needed to go all the way quite alone.
Being self-taught, he depended on his gut-feel & instincts. He found a brilliant performer & friend in Neeraj Shreedhar & together he realised their dream of doing an album…… & ‘DISCOVERY’ was born. It went on to become the ‘forefather’ of a whole new genre that is now known as Hindi Pop. Released by T-series on Christmas Eve 1985 it made quite a stir nationwide. Neeraj left for Sweden where he got married & settled down in pursuit of greater recognition as a rock vocalist in the West. Today he’s the frontman of the popular Hindi Pop group ‘BOMBAY VIKINGS’ & a star in his own right.
Meanwhile Gautam learnt some very important lessons-he needed to be his own producer & do his own thing & perhaps only then could he do justice to his vision & projects. He also learnt the difference between the urge to earn ‘stardom’ & the ‘sacred desire’ to follow the ‘dictations of his soul’ in order to address his creative impulses & to direct his energies to give meaning to his own music in a world where charts & numbers have replaced ‘originality’ with so-called ‘shelf-life’ which determine ‘hits’ & ‘misses’ as the main mantra of the music industry.
Today he is a total pilgrim & creates music is his ‘moksha’. These realisations early on in life gave him direction & much needed focus to continue to strive to make roads where there were none before. Luckily everything just fell in place & soon he was making waves in creative circuits producing award-winning corporate anthems, memorable jingles, path-breaking title scores for TV serials (at one stage there were 17 serials on air every week) & not surprisingly a lotta money too! By 1992 he had his own mini-Midi studio in his bedroom & he still works from there & still loves working on dos!