A versatile singer and performing artiste, Sharmistha Chatterjee is renowned for her mastery over different musical styles. Her inimitable vocals in the viral hit “Tilasmi Bahein”, from Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s magnum opus, “Heeramandi” (May, 2024) on Netflix, have been topping the charts on streaming platforms and drawing critical applause.

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Her SHARMISTHA CHATTERJEE LIVE shows present her unique musical aesthetics — mixing Hindustani Classical singing traditions with Indian folk and jazz; encompassing Sufi music and Panjabi poetry as well as commercial Hindi film songs — in an exhilarating performance with her band of musicians.

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A trained Hindustani vocalist, she has worked in the Indian film industry for two decades, lending her voice to playback singing, ad jingles, background scores as well as indie productions. She has also featured in and collaborated with some of the most sought-after artistes in the world of jazz and fusion. Her collaboration with composer Amit Trivedi on the song “Baithi Hai” from his album “Songs of Trance” ( September 2020) was hugely popular

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Between 2013 -2017, Sharmistha was the voice of the famous South Asian progressive rock band, Mekaal Hasan Band, originally based out of Lahore. She is the first and only Indian woman to be the lead vocalist of a premier Pakistani band. She is the first Indian singer to feature in Coke Studio Pakistan, performing with Mekaal Hasan Band in the show’s Season 8. The band’s hugely popular numbers “Sayon” and “Kinaray” and her performance won many hearts across borders and throughout the world. Mekaal Hasan Band’s third album, “Andholan” features Sharmistha on all the eight tracks. The song “Ghunghat”, a Baba Bulle Shah kalaam, topped charts in Pakistan and was voted the top song of 2015 according to an Express Tribune poll. Following their Coke Studio success, the band toured widely across North America, performing at festivals and prestigious venues across Canada and USA in 2015 and 2016, including South Asian Mosaic Festival, Surrey Fusion Festival, Hill Side Festival Guelph, Joe’s Pub, New York, and Berklee College of Music, Boston, and in cities like Toronto, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Denver and many more.

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Sharmistha is also the lead vocalist in Grammy-nominated pianist Louiz Bank’s Indo-Jazz fusion group Ganga Shakti. The group has performed across India. She has also been on lead vocals with India’s greatest drummer, Ranjit Barot’s world/jazz/fusion band called Ranjit Barot & The Resistance. As a live performer for both Bollywood and indie concerts, she has performed extensively in India and abroad. She also collaborated and performed with the band Orange Street in one of India’s most popular musical shows on television, Coke Studio at MTV.

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Sharmistha’s active interest in fusion music and her natural skills in fusing her style of singing with the different styles of world music earned her an invitation to perform at the prestigious Jazzaar Concerts 2010 in Switzerland (http://www.jazzaar.com), where she performed not only as a solo artist but also as a soprano vocalist in the Aaragau Youth Ensemble. There, she had the opportunity to work with maestros from the world of jazz, Hindustani and Carnatic classical music, such as Lew Soloff, Reggie Hamilton, Airto Moreira, Marcus Hauser, Danny Gottleib, Fritz Renold, Manrico Padovani, Pt Anindo Chatterjee, Ghatam Giridhar Udupa and many more.

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Born in a Bengali middle-class family in Shyamnagar, near Calcutta (Kolkata), Sharmistha earned a Master's degree in English literature from the Calcutta University. She continued with her academic pursuits and graduated with a First Class Bachelor’s Degree in Education, from the prestigious Loreto College, under Calcutta University. However, music was her passion and she moved to Mumbai to pursue her dreams.

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Sharmistha started her career singing advertising jingles and went on to sing for Hindi feature films and soundtracks. She has worked extensively as a session artist in prestigious projects like Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Saawariya. Her first song as a playback singer was Paas Aaya Kyun, composed by Mithoon, for the movie Aggar (2007). She also sang Kubul (2009), music scored by Monty Sharma, for the film Vaada Raha, Chahatein (2013) from the movie Darr @The Mall, and Dusokute (2015) from the critically acclaimed Margarita With a Straw. Her versatile vocals feature in many Bollywood soundtracks such as Bajrangi Bhaijaan, Ek Tha Tiger, Shivaay, Gulaab Gang, Gundey, Three Idiots, Fan and many more.

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Sharmistha is also the voice behind some of the most popular and successful advertising jingles with famous brands such as Frooti featuring Shah Rukh Khan, 7Up, Set Wet - Buri Nazar Wale, Coca-Cola Bidaai Featuring Alia Bhatt, Siddharth Malhotra, Saffola and many more. The most recent “Amul - Mother to Mother” jingle is also sung by her.

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Her journey continues...