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Saurabh Suman is a Bass Player from India. He works in the Indian Film Industry better known as Bollywood, performing and recording with Vishal Bharadwaj, Rekha Bharadwaj, Nikhil D'Souza, Clinton Cerejo, Sandesh Shandilya and Shalmali Kholgade.

He has also worked on popular music television shows such as A.R. Rahman's ARRived, Coke Studio (India), The Voice (India), MTV Jammin, etc.

Background
Saurabh was born and raised in New Delhi and did his graduation in Hindustani Classical Vocals at The Faculty of Music at Delhi University. By the end of his education, he began to take interest in Music Production and Western Music as well. After working as a music producer for a few short years, he chose to pursue a career as a bass player. He sought training from various professionals in New Delhi and eventually enrolled at Swarnabhoomi Academy of Music, Chennai to study under Panagiotis Andreou and Andres Rotmistrovsky.

Hereon, his skills moved in the direction of Funk, Pop, RnB and finally Jazz.

Work
Saurabh Suman began to perform in the Independent Music circles of New Delhi with bands such as Vedanta, Drift, MAP, Adil & Vasundhara etc. He would also work on a one-off or sessions basis with other artists, bands and choirs. He also began to teach bass playing at various music schools in Delhi, NCR.

In his late twenties, Saurabh moved to Mumbai to work as a freelancer with independent musicians and events booking companies. His first long contract came as the first chair bass player for The Bartender - a Broadway style Bollywood band created by music producer Mikey McCleary. Soon after that, he joined the popular Ska band The Fanculos. The reputation gained through live playing brought in offers to work in Bollywood and on Television with musical director Aditya Pushkarna and others.

Contribution
In 2019, Saurabh Suman started The School of Bass. This was the first school of its kind, aimed at teaching Bass to indian musicians in Hindi. Up until then, most education, especially in western music theory and harmony, were in English. This language divide posed a problem for many young indian musicians. The School of Bass now has about nine thousand hindi speaking musicians studying from all across India.