Tushar Banerjee, presently the drummer of Krosswindz, started his musical journey back in the year 2004 in Kolkata. Through his growing years he developed an inclination towards music. What merely started with playing pots and pans culminated into an intense passion towards rhythm and took shape in the form of playing drums. In 2005, he started his musical career forming one of the very first Metal bands of the city called 'Nitric Dreams'. In less than a year he shot to fame because of the band's complex compositions and odd time signatures which was much ahead of time then. Nitric Dreams got their first label contract from "Prime Music" after they went on to grab the third place at a regional Band Talent Hunt in 2006.Although the band lasted for a short while it paved the way for the metal scene.

Tushar was one of the founder members of a community called 'Naktala Metal Pally' and was instrumental in organising the very first underground metal concert in 2007 which was well acclaimed by the music circuit as well as the media in kolkata. After the band disbanded, he continued to grow as a musician and began exploring different genres in the form of Rock, Funk and Latin.

In the year 2011, Tushar happened to get the biggest breakthrough of his career when he made it to one of the premier bands of the country 'Krosswindz'. Formed in1990, the bands main aim was to urbanise Bengali folk music. World, Folk and ambient sounds are included in their progressive fusion work. They are not only touring all over the country but have also toured USA twice and also went on a south east Asia tour on behalf of the Indian Ebassy. They have the credit of collaborating with international artistes of repute like Herbie Hancock, Sky high(Sweden), Pandit Ramesh Mishra (Indian Sarangi Player) and the Jazz Ambassadors (USA). Numerous documentaries, films and commercials have the bands music featured in it.

Apart from touring with Krosswindz and working on its upcoming albums, Tushar continues to give workshops and drum clinics. Tushar is also presently working on Drummerzone Project, an initiative to bring together all drums' and percussions' related performances under one roof. It regularly holds drum clinics, interviews and Drum jams featuring various talented musicians. This project has also hosted a product demonstration by Roland where Tushar explained the concept of Hybrid Drums in the presence of representatives from Roland Headquarters Japan.

With the immense passion of improving and uplifting the music scene, he has opened up a studio dedicated specially for live drum takes by the name ‘Pentatonic Studio’. Started in 2012 it is already very popular among all the upcoming bands of Kolkata and beyond. Having worked for more than twenty artistes he already has the credit of producing few EPs which were released from record labels in US, Sweden and Bangladesh.

Website: http://www.tusharbanerjee.com/