Sanjay Divecha
Sanjay Divecha is of the most revered guitar players in India. A unique and compelling voice as a player and composer, he is part of the hugely successful supergroup CROSS CURRENTS led by Zakir Hussain and featuring stalwarts such as Dave Holland, Vinnie Colaiuta, Chris Potter, Eddie Daniels, Shankar Mahadevan and Louiz Banks.
Through a luminous 35 year long career, Sanjay has worked with artists such as Angelique Kidjo, Carlos Santana, Michael McDonald, Fred Raulston, Dave Weckl, Louis Johnson, Dumazz and Sambaguru among others.
He also collaborated with A.R. Rahman on the Danny Boyle movie “127 Hours” that won ‘Best Original Score’, the OST for the movie “Woman on Top” with Argentinean composer Luis Bacalov, Sanjay also usescored for the movie ‘Leela’ by Somnath Sen which won a Special Jury Award at Toronto Reel World Film Festival.
An alumnus (1989) from Musician’s Institute (M.I) in Los Angeles, Sanjay continues to mentor and develop musicians all over the country. His students are not only guitar players, but musicians and singers of all disciplines.
Sanjay teaches private lessons and holds workshops to develop musicality and a well rounded aesthetic sensibility in musicians.
