Amano Manish

Amano Manish is professional and extremely talented music composer and a guitar player. He was born in Jaipur, Rajasthan. In his early childhood days, Manish started taking music lessons from Pt. Basant Kabra, the legendary Sarod player. Later he was guided by Pt. Brij Bhushan Kabra Pandit. Brij Bhushan Kabra was a renowned and worl >> Read More... . He was highly impressed with his father playing the guitar. He learned to play guitar from the Senia Maihar Gharana tradition, founded by Acharya Allauddin Khan. During his time with Pt. Brij Bhushan Kabra, he made a documentary film called the Guitar Odyssey. The documentary depicted the story of how Pt Basant Kabra became a professional in playing guitar. During 997, Manish moved to Mumbai and started his music career with Pt. Shekhar Borkar, who is also a professional Sarod player. Shekhar taught him a lot of new techniques of playing guitar and helped him to master his technique. Later, he was taught by Pt. Vishwamohan Bhatt, who took his talent to the public. Manish performed in public and received a lot of recognition. He was also helped by Pt. Debashish Bhattacharya.

The world of press tagged him with the title ‘fastest slide guitarist alive’. He later developed three different models of Indian guitar namely Gandharvi, Anandi and Chaturangui. Manish organizes many musical workshops relating to Indian culture and music. He organizes a lot of concerts, both duets, and solo. He has done a lot of concert with Mukti. He performed his first concert with Mukti in the year 2011. Later, he did four more concerts with her in the same year. He also did some international concerts. In 2012, he did a duet with Uday in Colombo, SriLanka. He has done a lot of duet with the band Swaraprayag and Ascension. He recently did a Sufi concert with Pavan Naik and friends on 19th October 2015.