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Dayanand Ghotkar is Music Director and singer in Marathi and Hindi film industry. He has also performed various stage shows in India and wrote the book of poems for kids named "My Friend Ganesh".

He is recipient of "All India Award" for films from Balchitrawani. Dayanand Ghotkar started singing from very young age. His debut performance on stage was during his college days when he and his group performed songs of Swatntraveer Vinayak Damodar Savarkar. He then formed a group with his friends and named it "Rasika Tujhya Sathi" and used to perform various stage shows.

Personal Life
Ghotkar is born and brought up in Pune, India. He belong to music loving family. His mother was a housewife. His father took sanyas when Dayanand was very young. To earn livelihood Dayanand used to iron the clothes for education. When he was young he used to go to temple with his mother where he used to play taal (an instrument to provide rhythm to bhajans). He had a brilliant spark for music. In childhood his only hobby was to sing and play musical instruments available. He used to play music on anything - fitter tools, utensils, boxes, pots and anything he got. This was and is his hobby. He did his schooling from Bhave high school, Pune & college from S.P. College, Pune. He met his wife Prachi Ghotkar in 1985 and got married in 1990. Prachi works with Cosmos Bank in Pune, India. He has two daughters - Purva Ghotkar and Ruta Ghotkar. Elder daughter Ruta is Sanskrit teacher and M.A. in Bharatnatyam. younger daughter is learning German language and M.A. in Music. She even teaches music to kids.

Music Training
Ghotkar did not get formal training in music. His first guru was his mother. During his college days one of his friends got impressed with his voice and took him to Shri Ram Mhate guruji in his music school "Swar Sadhana Sangit Vidyalaya". He learnt music from him for next 6 years. While performing with his group "Rasika Tujhya Sathi", He met Dr. P.L. Gawade sir who did PhD on Swatantravir Savarkar. On his guidance he did performance on Savarkar. During one of these programs he met Ram Kadam. Ram Kadam became next guru of Ghotkar regarding music direction, tunes, rhythms, etc.

Career
Ghotkar started performing on stage during his college days. He then started his performance with his group "Rasika Tujhya Sathi". After college he joined Abhinav School as teacher. With his job he used to give performance. He sung songs for marathi movie "Janmthep" (meaning Life-imprisonment) in 1980. He also worked a lot with Balchitrawani for kids. He worked with various versatile music directors like Ajay Parade, Surendra Apolkar, Vilas Adkar, Pramod Natu, Ram Kadam and Babuji. With Rahul Ghorpade he did Ashtavinayaka song for Radio in 2016 and a few songs composed in Aao Phir se Deep Jalaye by our ex-prime minister Mr. A.B. Vajpayee sir. He likes to give direction to Balgeet (children songs), Bhaktigeet (devotional songs) and loksangeet (folk songs).

Awards
Ghotak won All India award for the film for teachers in Balchitrawani.