

Zubeen’s life had a turning point when he received the gold medal for his western solo performance in the youth festival held in 1992. But he did not complete his baccalaureate studies as he jumped in to the music scene. Barooah College, where he was pursuing Bachelor of Science after his family moved permanently to Guwahati. Zubeen started learning tabla from Guru Robin Banarjee, and then continued learning Assamese folk music form Guru Romoni Rai.

Zubeen has opened a chain of beauty parlors across the northeast called Zubeen’s Veda. He is also working on a script for a Hindi film which was announced in August 2006. Zubeen lives with his wife Garima, a fashion designer, in his flat, which is a part of his music studio called Sound & Silence, located at 165/1, Sher-E-Punjab. He plans on opening an institute in the near future to help those that are mentally challenged as well. Zubeen’s other sister Palme, is a good bharat natyam dancer, presently living in Guwahati.įeeling indebted to his loyal fans from Assam, Zubeen became involved in various charitable organizations dealing with AIDS and brain cancer. Zubeen’s younger sister Jonkie Borthakur was a well known singer and actress who unfortunately died in a car accident in 2002. Zubeen considers his mother to be his first guru and mentor. Instead, she decided to teach them to little Zubeen at home.
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However, she never turned these talents into a professional career. Zubeen’s mother was a good dancer, an actress and a singer. Borthakur was a magistrate and moved often during his early years along with little Zubeen. The Borthakur family had its roots in Janji, Sivasagar. However, because of transliteration discrepancies he is sometimes credited as Zubin Garg, Jubin Garg, or simply Zubin, Zubeen or Jubin and various combinations of the above mentioned. Borthakur, a famous lyricist and poet (who uses the pseudo name Kapil Thakur), and late Mrs. He was named after the great composer Zubin Mehta and used their Gautra as his surname. Zubeen Garg hails from Jorhat, a small city in upper Assam.

He plays dhols, dotora, mandolin, keyboard and various percussion instruments. is a singer and composer from Assam, India, in the Bollywood and Assamese music scene.
