Dhrubajyoti Phukan
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Dhrubajyoti Phukan is a National Film Award winning musician who has worked as a Music Producer, Music Arranger and Music Programmer in Hindi Films. Widely known as DJ Phukan, he has also worked as a music director for several films.
Dhrubajyoti Phukan was born on June 17, 1964 in Dibrugarh, Assam. His father Atulananda Phukan is a civil engineer who has worked for PWD in Assam and Meghalaya. His mother Amiya Phukan is a housewife. Phukan derived inspiration from the musical atmosphere at home - both his mother and his maternal grandfather, late Khagen Gogoi, sang as a hobby. As a child, he learnt to play tabla from Phatik Tamuli and Dilipranjan Borthakur, and Hawaiian guitar from Hema Hazarika.
He schooled at the Moran Higher Secondary School. Thereafter, he took admission in Cotton College, Guwahati, but later shifted to Arya Vidyapeeth College, Guwahati.
The young Phukan displayed myriad interests - ranging from quantum physics, to car sports to spiritualism to Mechanical Engineering, especially Automobile Engineering. After graduating in Mechanical Engineering from Assam Engineering College, Phukan worked for two years as a Project Engineer at Ducons, a local engineering firm in Guwahati. He also did a year-long stint as a lecturer at the Assam Engineering Institute, Guwahati.
Music was a hobby that developed into a passion and then a profession for Phukan. He began his career in music in the year 1989 as a session musician and musical arranger in Guwahati. He assisted Bhupen Uzir, an eminent music director from Assam and this laid the bedrock for his music career. He also assisted and worked as a music arranger for Sher Choudhuri, another great Assamese music director in several films. He arranged music for several albums and films in Assam.
Phukan was tremendously inspired by legendary composers like RD Burman and Ilaiyaraaja, but one album in particular, Shiv-Hari's 1981 soundtrack for Silsila, propelled him towards music arrangement. Phukan found arranging music fascinating and started learning it on his own. As of computer music, there was no institute teaching this subject at that time, he presciently foresaw the rising importance of computer music, and he trained himself in the many facets.
Dhrubajyoti Phukan was born on June 17, 1964 in Dibrugarh, Assam. His father Atulananda Phukan is a civil engineer who has worked for PWD in Assam and Meghalaya. His mother Amiya Phukan is a housewife. Phukan derived inspiration from the musical atmosphere at home - both his mother and his maternal grandfather, late Khagen Gogoi, sang as a hobby. As a child, he learnt to play tabla from Phatik Tamuli and Dilipranjan Borthakur, and Hawaiian guitar from Hema Hazarika.
He schooled at the Moran Higher Secondary School. Thereafter, he took admission in Cotton College, Guwahati, but later shifted to Arya Vidyapeeth College, Guwahati.
The young Phukan displayed myriad interests - ranging from quantum physics, to car sports to spiritualism to Mechanical Engineering, especially Automobile Engineering. After graduating in Mechanical Engineering from Assam Engineering College, Phukan worked for two years as a Project Engineer at Ducons, a local engineering firm in Guwahati. He also did a year-long stint as a lecturer at the Assam Engineering Institute, Guwahati.
Music was a hobby that developed into a passion and then a profession for Phukan. He began his career in music in the year 1989 as a session musician and musical arranger in Guwahati. He assisted Bhupen Uzir, an eminent music director from Assam and this laid the bedrock for his music career. He also assisted and worked as a music arranger for Sher Choudhuri, another great Assamese music director in several films. He arranged music for several albums and films in Assam.
Phukan was tremendously inspired by legendary composers like RD Burman and Ilaiyaraaja, but one album in particular, Shiv-Hari's 1981 soundtrack for Silsila, propelled him towards music arrangement. Phukan found arranging music fascinating and started learning it on his own. As of computer music, there was no institute teaching this subject at that time, he presciently foresaw the rising importance of computer music, and he trained himself in the many facets.
