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Abhishek Singh Chouhan

Domain: Music Composer | Songwriter | Lyricist | Singer | Music Producer | Synthesizer Artist

Genre: #IndianClassicalMusic #Devotional #OriginalMusic

Location: Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh, India

Journey

FIRST STEPS INTO MUSIC

Abhishek Singh Chouhan was introduced to music duing his first peformance in school. There was an event in school and teachers were looking for one more kid who could sing. So, Abhishek appeared for an audition for the same, and he was selected to sing for the group song. That was the beginning of his musical journey, singing in a chorus song along with Harmonium, and Tabla.

His music teacher, Shri Dinesh Bhatt, in school met with his parents and suggested him to learn singing, formally, as he sang well. And, he and his sister joined a formal music class, where they learned to sing the seven notes for an entire year, to get the perfect Sur. Gradually, he learnt to sing raga Yaman, Bilawal, and other ragas.

TRAINING IN HINDUSTANI VOCAL CLASSICAL AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

Abhishek started participating in other cultural activities in school as well. Meanwhile, his marks in school dropped from 97% to 92%, and his music classes were stopped because of that. Then, Dinesh Ji came to his home to ask to his parents, and came to know about the academics performance drop, he assured parents of Abhishek that he would perform well. Dinesh Ji didn’t take fees, and took the responsibility for Abhishek to perform well in academics. Now, by the time Abhishek was 10 years old, his father got him a small keyboard to play music on, and requested a well-known keyboard artist Prabhakar Sharma, to teach Abhishek how to play it properly. After two years of training in the basic keyboard, Abhishek got a bigger keyboard, to be able to perform and accompany for music shows in various local events.

Abhishek Chouhan completed his Sangeet Visharad, from Prayag Sangeet Samiti, Allahabad, while also completing his graduation in B.Com and his post graduation in HR & Marketing. He started working as a Lecturer in a college, so, he would get a lot of holidays. During this time, he met with a friend who was working in the Mumbai music industry. So, Abhishek went to Mumbai, to meet with talented musicians. He and his friend got some projects, and Abhishek started his first commercial work as a “music arranger”. He later learned all about music production, eventually, on his own. And in 2020, Abhishek started his YouTube channel “Mid Town Music“, dedicated to write, produce and release original songs.

EMBRACING THE PROFESSIONAL MUSIC WORLD

To set the context right, it is noteworthy to mention that during his school days, Abhishek had appeared for various auditions in local talent hunt events, and that is how he started thinking about how a song is created. By the time he was 17 years old, he started writing lyrics, and giving music to those lyrics, by playing his keyboard. He had just started getting into songwriting.

Highlights of his professional achievements are mentioned below:

  • 2024: Received an invitation and also performed in Ayodhya for the cultural festivities surrounding the consecration ceremony of the Ram Mandir where he was featured in
    LIVE concerts of India TV and DD National channels
  • 2018: performed in Mauritius through ICCR (Indian Council of Cultural Relations) as part of the Mahashivratri celebrations, proudly representing India on the international stage
  • 2009 and 2011: Stood first in the State Level Youth Festival
  • Represented Vikram University, Ujjain at the Zonal level youth festival in Udaipur, showcasing his talent in Hindustani vocal classical music
  • Performed in various recordings on Doordarshan TV channel of Madhya Pradesh (MP)

In 2009, Abhishek Chouhan started his professional journey in playing keyboard with “Sharma Bandhu” group. Also, Abhishek knew Shri Rajeev Sharma (of “Sharma Bandhu” group) and had worked together as a keyboard accompanist at a lot of events with him, and he learned a lot from him. Their musical journey of togetherness continues for fifteen years now.

NATIONAL LEVEL RECOGNITION FOR MUSICIANS FROM NAGDA, UJJAIN

Abhishek continued writing lyrics, and one day, he received a request for a project, and he decided to write a song on Maa Ganga. He wrote “Namami Gange”, gave music to it, invited vocalists to sing the song, did the complete mixing and cutting, requested his friend Mr. Karan (who works at Colors channel) to do the cinematography for the video shoot of the song, Abhishek wrote the screenplay, and got a producer to do the remaining aspects of the production work.

Abhishek submitted this song to the devotional category of Independent Indian Music Awards (IIMA) 2022, where established artists like Bombay Jayshree and others had their songs submitted in devotional category. The song received “Special Mention” award of the IIMA edition in 2022. Abhishek attributes the success of this song to divine energy in the song, and divinity of purpose that was fulfilled by each and every vocalist and musician involved in this project. He continues to make new music, he collaborates with musicians from all over India and abroad, and he aspires to bring more original music to us.

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