Pandit Debojyoti Bose,
alias Tony, naturally inherits an unstrained musical acumen, for he was born in
a family of passionate musicians,on the 20TH day of December 1962 at Kolkata.
He is the fourth generation musician in the Bose family. His great grandfather
Sri Akshay Kumar Bose, a jaminder of Pankobil in Jessore, now in Bangladesh,
had a great passion for tabla which was passed on to the generations that
followed. That is how he is a born tabla player. His father Pandit Biswanath
Bose a tabla legend of Benaras gharana, a disciple of Pandit Kanthe Maharaj and
his mother Smt. Bharati Bose a keen Sitar player and a disciple of Ustad Mushtaq
Ali Khan and Ustad Ali Akbar Khan, sowed the seed of music in him by imparting
the early lessons.