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Suraj Nepal

Music Instrumentalist, Esraj Player

Artist Names: Suraj Nepal
Profession Music Instrumentalist, Esraj Player

Suraj Nepal, The Esraj player born in Nepal started a love affair with music since his childhood. He grew up listening to folk and religious tunes played during various festivals in Kathmandu. At the age of 10 he started playing madal (A Nepali percussion) and started singing folk songs since his school days. As years passed, his interest in eastern classical music and instruments grew. That’s when he met a musician friend of a relative that introduced him to Esraj and encouraged him to learn the instrument. He learnt Esraj from Guru Santosh Bhakta Shrestha who then was the only person in Nepal to play the instrument. He too was his only disciple. He received a diploma in Esraj and in 2007. Since then he’s won many accolades, performed with many international artists, played many projects, bands and function. He’s benchmark performances include Playing for Change Organization, Varanasi International Ashram, Udaipur Shilpgram Festival, CPI NTOK 2014 Korea and Wumeng Grassland Music Festival China 2016, Inner Mongolia China 2018 & Wilma Israel 2019 etc.

Suraj Nepal, The Esraj player born in Nepal started a love affair with music since his childhood. He grew up listening to folk and religious tunes played during various festivals in Kathmandu. At the age of 10 he started playing madal (A Nepali percussion) and started singing folk songs since his school days. As years passed, his interest in eastern classical music and instruments grew. That’s when he met a musician friend of a relative that introduced him to Esraj and encouraged him to learn the instrument. He learnt Esraj from Guru Santosh Bhakta Shrestha who then was the only person in Nepal to play the instrument. He too was his only disciple. He received a diploma in Esraj and in 2007. Since then he’s won many accolades, performed with many international artists, played many projects, bands and function. He’s benchmark performances include Playing for Change Organization, Varanasi International Ashram, Udaipur Shilpgram Festival, CPI NTOK 2014 Korea and Wumeng Grassland Music Festival China 2016, Inner Mongolia China 2018 & Wilma Israel 2019 etc.

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Tarangini|Taar Sahanai Instrumental Music

Composed & produced:
Suraj Nepal
Credits:
Bass & Guitar- Deepesh Singh
Recorded, Arrange, Mixed & Mastered by Surendra Shrestha
Studio: Sur Melody

Mithila Janakpur

Composed & produced:
Suraj Nepal
Credits:
Tar Sahanai- Suraj Nepal
Fluet- Umesh Pandit
Tabla-Laxmi Prasad Dangol
Effects, bells and wind Instrument- Siddhartha Maharjan
Recorded, Arrange, Mixed & Mastered by Surendra Shrestha
Studio: Sur Melody

Raag Brindabani Sarang Madhyalaya

Esraj: Suraj Nepal
Tabla: Maestro Rabin Lal Shrestha
Taanpura: Saraswati Adhikari

Resham Firiri Esraj by Suraj Nepal(yahoo concert, south Korea)

Resham firiri (रेशम फिरिरी) is a very popular folk song from Nepal. Young ones or elderly, village people or city dwellers, traditional, old fashioned or modern, you will hear this song in almost every occasion when Nepalese have to share happiness, sing and dance.

Artist Name: Suraj Nepal
Profession Music Instrumentalist, Esraj Player
Birthday: Aug 23

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