Renowned singer Sanjay Dwivedi shared about his experiences with the art lovers.
Sanjay was featured in the latest episode of Baaton Baaton Mein, the Instagram talk show. A talk series ‘Baaton Baaton Mein’ is being held every day on Instagram. Hosted by renowned art critic Sunil Mishr, the series is being held for the art lovers.
Sanjay shared her life struggles and stories of the musical journey during the talk. Sanjay is the founder of first ever Sanskrit Band Dhruva.
Dhruva, is an Indian musical band. It is considered to be India's first Sanskrit band The band is based in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh The band's genre is a fusion with the use of Indian instruments such as bansuri, shankha, tabla, pakhavaj and European instruments such as harmonium, guitar and acoustic drums.
The band was founded by Sanjay Dwivedi, who has a doctoral degree in Sanskrit and is a practitioner of Indian classical music. The band first played on 24 January 2015, with other members being Vaibhav Santore and Gyneshwari Parsai In 2015 the band played at World Sanskrit Day celebrations in New Delhi. Apart from original compositions their numbers are taken from Rig Veda, the works of Adi Shankaracharya, Shiv Tandav, Jaidev, Madhurashtakam, love letters from Abhigyan Shakuntala.
He said that the concept of Dhruvaa is inspired by Bharatmuni (2nd century B.C.), as he described in Natyashastra. Dhruvaa is purely based on Indian classical music with the melody of western music is combinedly called the Fusion. We are representing the soul, the identity of Bharat ie. India. So the music is full of tradition.