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Sameer Gupta
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Who I Am & Where I Live
- Name: Sameer Gupta
- City: Brooklyn, New York
- Country: United States
Current News
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What's Up?
“The community-building ethos he absorbed on the Bay Area scene has paid major dividends in New York, where he co-founded Brooklyn Raga Massive, a collective that brings together musicians devoted to classical Indian music.”
– San Francisco Classical Voice 8/2018
“Sameer is very clear we can come as we are, and be who we are. We can be whatever kind of hybrid of musician we’ve become.”
– Marika Hughes on KQED Online
My Life & Work
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Bio:
Sameer Gupta is known as one of the few percussionists simultaneously representing the traditions of American jazz on drumset, and Indian classical music on tabla. He has performed at Lincoln Center Performing Arts Center in NYC, Birla Auditorium Kolkata, Townhall Seattle, SFJAZZ, Nehru Centre London, NYC MoMA and Yerba Buena Gardens San Francisco.
Sameer completed his Jazz studies learning from his peers on the bandstands in San Francisco and Oakland to Harlem and Brooklyn. His own interests and love of tabla helped guide Sameer to become a co-founder of the non-profit collective Brooklyn Raga Massive.
Today he lives in Brooklyn, NYC and is actively involved in performing, curating, producing and teaching through various institutions including the Outside (In)dia Series presented by India Center Foundation, Brooklyn Raga Massive, Carnegie Hall’s Global Encounters and Ragas Live Festival.
Gupta has held workshops on Indian music and cross over drumming styles at The Jazzschool in Berkeley, California and Berklee College of Music in Boston.
Sameer has had the pleasure to make music with many great musicians including 2019 NEA Jazz Master recipient Reggie Workman, Harry Belafonte, Marc Cary, Casey Benjamin, Martha Redbone, Awa Sangho, Falu Shah, Adam Rudolph, Rez Abbasi, Kiran Ahluwalia, Wallace Roney, Karsh Kale, Pandit Krishna Bhatt, Ravi Chandra Kulur, Mysore Manjunath, Prasant Radhakrishnan, Pandit Chitresh Das, Jason Samuels Smith, Pandit Ramesh Mishra, Pandit Anindo Chatterjee and numerous other luminaries.
Gupta continues to build his career by combining traditional and modern improvisational styles drawing from his dual Indian and American heritage, and has already established himself as an original musical voice in music today. From bebop to avant-garde jazz, and European classical percussion to North Indian classical tabla. Gupta continues to compose and perform music from a true multi-cultural perspective that now bridges several continents.
Contact Information
- Email: tablajazz@gmail.com
My Media & Markets
- ▶ Buy My Music (downloads/CDs/DVDs): http://sameergupta.bandcamp.com/
- ▶ Buy My Art: http://sameergupta.bandcamp.com
- ▶ Twitter: tablajazz
- ▶ Instagram: tablajazz
- ▶ Website: http://sameergupta.com
- ▶ YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqsF4DxdQk1Y8HVzupmIdvw
- ▶ YouTube Music: http://music.youtube.com/channel/UCJaTYjh7yqKBHhpnteMtrrQ
- ▶ Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/album/1abdNlr7N3tK5d1IoiIUbg
- ▶ Spotify 2: http://open.spotify.com/album/3rdJnVbj21Ex9pYlnLnANi
- ▶ Spotify 3: http://open.spotify.com/album/3ySX1Kx7PZYbsxutK7Orjn
- ▶ Spotify 4: http://open.spotify.com/album/6X0g52DPRoxaRVeRX0V1wa
- ▶ Spotify 5: http://open.spotify.com/album/5FN2G6OWhAFP2ZsYoHeV4D
- ▶ Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/sameergupta