Prithvi Gandharv

Prithvi Gandharv, born 8 April 1990 in Mumbai, is a singer and composer from a fourth-generation musical family; his grandfather Mohan Singh was a film-industry harmonium player and his father Ashok Gandharv is a violinist. He began singing at the age of four, trained early in Hindustani classical music, and is a protege of Padma Shri Hariharan. Though he works across genres, ghazal singing remains closest to his heart.

Gandharv assisted composers including Pritam, Shantanu Moitra and Shamir Tandon before his breakout as a playback voice with Albela Sajan in Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Bajirao Mastani (2015), which won Best Raag-based Song of the Decade at the Radio Mirchi Awards. On the ghazal circuit he has performed at the Khazana festival and toured internationally alongside the legendary Ustad Ghulam Ali, including a 2025 North America tour. He has composed ghazal albums with Ustad Rashid Khan and Javed Ali, released originals such as Niyat-e-Shauq, and also performs Sufi and devotional music, including with the Isha Foundation. He has given more than a thousand concerts worldwide.

Gandharv has a classically grounded voice that adapts across ghazal, Hindustani classical, Sufi, devotional and Bollywood playback. He performs with his own band and also composes, bringing a producer's ear to traditional forms while keeping the ghazal's emotional core intact.