Artists and genres Shyamal Mitra directly influenced — one hop forward on the family tree of music.
Sunil Ganguly was an Indian instrumentalist from Kolkata. He popularized the Hawaiian electric guitar in India. He made several albums with His Master's Voice, Concorde Records, and Sagarika, with instrumental renditions of Hindi film music, classical songs, Bengali film songs, modern songs, Nazrul Geeti, Rabindra Sangeet, and ghazals by composers like Mehdi Hassan, Ghulam Ali, Jagjit Singh, and Bade Ghulam Ali,.
