Biography of Zubeen Garg

Biography of Zubeen Garg

Short Biography About Zubeen Garg
Full Name: Zubeen Borthakur.
Nick Name: Goldie.
Born : November 18, 1972.
Present Age: 41.
Birth Place: Jorhat, Assam, India.
Genre: Playback Singing, Bihu, Indian folk, Indian pop, rock.
Occupation: As a Singer.
Years Active: From 1992.
Labels: Universal Music Group, EYE creation.

Zubeen Garg (Early Life)
Garg hails from Jorhat, a city in upper Assam. His

birth name is Zubeen Borthakur. He was named after the great composer Zubin Mehta and uses his gotra name, Garg, as his surname.Garg was born to Mohini Mohan Borthakur, a famous lyricist, poet and a magistrate (who uses the pseudonym Kapil Thakur), and the late Ily Borthakur. He is fluent in Bengali.
The Borthakur family has its roots in Janji, Sivasagar. Mohan Borthakur was a magistrate and he and his family moved often during Garg's early years. Ily Borthakur was a dancer, actress and singer, but she never turned these talents into a professional career. Instead, she decided to teach her son at home. Garg's younger sister Jongki Borthakur was a well-known singer and actress who died in a car accident in 2002 near Tezpur while they were going to perform stage show along with her fiance. There after Zubeen made an album known as (SHISHU) in memory of his late sister. Zubeen's other sister Palme Borthakur, is a bharatanatyam dancer, runs a dance academy in Guwahati.
Feeling indebted to his fans from Assam, Garg became involved in various charitable organizations dealing with AIDS and cancer. He is also president of societies including Destination (for autistic children), the All-Assam Cultural Organisation, and Vande.

Zubeen Garg (Education And Career)
He did his schooling in various places of Assam viz, Jorhat, Karimganj, Bijni and Tamulpur and 2 years of pre university in in Jagannath Barooah College Jorhat under Dibrugarh University, and then moved to B. Borooah College, Guwahati, where he pursued Bachelor of Science. He left before completing his degree

,when he received the gold medal for his western solo performance in a 1992 youth festival, he got his first taste of success and confidence as vocalist.
Garg considers his mother to be his first guru and mentor. He started learning tabla from Guru Robin Banarjee, and then continued learning Assamese folk music from Guru Romoni Rai. Apart from playing dhols, dotara, mandolin, percussions, guitar Garg is an accomplished keyboard player. He entered the professional music scene in 1992, releasing his first album, Anamika. This unusual album, became an instant hit in northeast India and had a strong influence on the Assamese musical landscape.

Zubeen Garg (Present Career)
Zubeen Garg is one of the most busiest and successful singers of India. He has already sang around 15000 songs and is still singing. Garg continues to make albums. Apart from Assamese, Garg has sung in 40 languages including Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Punjabi, Oriya, Bengali, Marathi, Nepali, English, Bodo, Karbi, Mishing

and many more regional languages. His song "Ya Ali" from the movie Gangster became a superhit in India, the Middle East, and across South Asia. Following this success, he released an album titled Ya Ali Remix Blast.
Garg released a Hindi album Zubeen's Zindagi, in 2007, which was well received. after the last year release of Runjun.last 18 October 2012, Zubeen released a smashing album called Rock. This is the celebration album of completing 20 rocking years in music.
He has sung in many films in several Indian languages.He is the most successful musician after legendary Bhupen Hazarika in Assamese music industry.
Garg is also a prominent actor in Assamese films. His films have won national awards.
In 2014, Garg directed and scored music in Brindaban Theatre's Drama "Devdas" for the session 2013-14.

Zubeen Garg (Personal Life)
Garg currently lives in Mumbai and part of his home is also a music studio christened "Sound & Silence". He is married to Garima Saikia Garg, a fashion designer hailing from Golaghat, Assam on 4 February 2002. They met in Guwahati but their relationship flourished, when Garima went to pursue her studies in Mumbai.[citation needed] She is also his dress designer and designes forvarious Assamese feature films, video albums,fashion shows,the mobile theaters of Assam and other stage performances.