Santanu Basu is a composer, singer-songwriter, musician, music producer and multi-instrumentalist.With a multifaceted personality he is a talented and accomplished musician in everyrespect. Today Santanu is a well-known figure in the contemporary music industry of Bengal.

In his successful career Santanu has been privileged to work as a musician, music arranger and music director with such legendary figures of Indian music like Manna Dey, Hemanta Mukherjee, Sandhya Mukherjee, Suchitra Mitra, Sumitra Sen, Amar Paul, Ramkumar Chattopadhyay, Arati Mukherjee, Anup Ghosal,Nirmala Mishra, Madhuri Chattopadhyay, Banashree Sen Gupta, Amit Kumar, Anuradha Padwal,Arundhati Holme Chowdhury and many more.

Santanu has been working with some of the luminaries of the current generation too, including Kabir Suman, Nachiketa, Indrani Sen, Indranil Sen, Anupam Roy, Annwesha, Rupankar and others.

Santanu’s musical career has been associated with revered film director Padmashree Tarun Majumdar. For Majumdar, Santanu initially worked as an assistant music director in the films like Aalo, Chander Bari, Bhalobasar Anek Naam, three documentaries andothers. Subsequently as a music director Santanu worked in the film Bhalobasar Bari, directed by Tarun Majumdar.

There are some other movies of other directors are waiting for the normal situation to release, where Santanu worked as Music Director.

His music arrangements and direction introduced a new dimension in the use of Tagore songs in films and he became the architect of several hit songs.

Santanu Basu, son of Late Sunandan Bose and Mrs. Basanti Bose was born in Kolkata. Due to his father’s transferable job in Indian Railways, Santanu’s family moved from place to place in West Bengal. As a result most of his childhood was spent in Jaynagar Majilpur of South 24 Parganas.

Academically trained as a civil engineer, Santanu stepped into the world of music, art and culture from a tender age to quench his tremendous thirst for creativity.

Santanu has enthralled audiences across the world with his live concerts. Even as a vocalist, Santanu has mesmerized his audiences. Beside his creation of music Santanu’s singing ventures have indeed added a new feather in his cap.

Santanu  directed the music of a Theatrical Music Opera show, named JEY ACHO ANTAREY. The story was based on Rabindrasangeet. The script of this Opera was written by legendary Tarun Majumder

Santanu yielded several original compositions in the lockdown period based on contemporary social issues. Among them his song ‘CORONA TUMI JAO CHOLEY’on overcoming the pandemic of Corona needs special mention. He involved around 16 members for this project including children. He tried to give importance on child psychology in a lock down situation. Beside this he composed songs on the cyclone AMPHAN named ‘JHOR’ and on the pathetic situation of Migrant Workers of Bengal with the title ‘CHOLCHI TOH CHOLCHI BISTARO PATH’.

Blessed with the company of many stalwarts and others, Santanu wishes to continue with his musical journey in the years to come.