ABOUT

Sumit Misra was born on September 16,1992 in Malda in a famous Musical family of Benaras Gharana.He is the grandson of a maestro Pandit Vishnu Sewak Misra.Sumit started learning Indian Classical Music from his father Sankar lal Misra and mother late Mousumi Misra at the age of 3.Then he has been under the tutelage of a maestro Pandit Tushar Dutta since 2000.Sumit won several music competitions from his childhood and has proved his talent on numerous occasions and on numerous fields of music(Classical,semi-classical,adhunik,bhajan,dadra,thumri,najrulgeeti,ghazal etc) .Sumit is also the recepient of NATIONAL AWARD OF SCHOLARSHIP for INDIAN CLASSICAL MUSIC from the MINISTRY OF CULTURE,GOVT. OF INDIA.He is a B High graded artiste of AKASHVANI ALL INDIA RADIO(khayal and najrulgeeti)Sumit also became the champion in CLASSICAL(VOCAL)at BHARAT KALA UTSAV organised by BHARAT KALA KENDRA IN 2016.Sumit stood 1ST in CLASSICAL(VOCAL) at RAJYA SANGEET ACADEMY IN 2016.Sumit also stood 1ST and have been selected as the BEST COMPETITOR in INDIAN CLASSICAL MUSIC in the very prestigious 76TH ALL INDIA MUSIC COMPETITION,2016 organised by CHETLA MURARI SMRITI SANGEET SAMMILANI.Sumit also became the champion in SANGEET MILON presents CLASSICAL VOICE OF KOLKATA and later CLASSICAL VOICE OF INDIA in 2016.Sumit also completed PRABHAKAR and VISHARAD in CLASSICAL MUSIC.Sumit has performed in different parts of India and abroad such as Mumbai,Delhi,Varanasi, Jamshedpur, kolkata,Patna, Lucknow,QATAR etc. SUMIT is amongst the top 8 contestants of Star Plus's INTERNATIONAL REALITY SHOW DIL HAI HINDUSTANI 2 ,2018 where the judges were Sunidhi chawhan, Pritam Chakraborty and Badshah. Sumit is also a Playback Singer and sung few songs for an upcoming Bhojpuri Movie “Pocket Money-Achieve The Goal” and Bengali Movie “Kuhelika”.