Debasis Chakroborty

Debasis Chakroborty (born 9 June 1961) is an Indian classical slide guitar player from Senia-Maihar Gharana.

Chakroborty was born in Calcutta, India, and began learning guitar from his father Madhusudan Chakroborty. He then came under the tutelage of the guitarist Pandit Barun Kumar Pal from Kolkata, as well as Pandit Jotin Bhattacharya, a sarod player and senior disciple of Ustad Baba Allauddin Khan Sahib of the Maihar Gharana. Later on, Debasis became a disciple of the guitarist Pundit Brij Bhushan Kabra.

Debasis's style of playing combines both Gayaki and Tantrakari Angs. He follows the oldest tradition of playing sarode, sitar and veena with his modified Hawaiian guitar, which has a three-octave range.

He is an "A" grade artist of Prasar Bharati in both Hindustani classical and light music, and has performed in the National programme. He is an ICCR-emplaced artist under the Indian Ministry of External Affairs. He has performed at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, as a visiting faculty member and artist in residence. Currently, he lectures in the Department of Music at the Institute of Visual Performing Arts & Research, Mangalayatan University in Aligarh.