Shri Prakash Chander, son of Late Shri Hansa Dutt and Smt. Leela Devi, was born on 14th February1971 in Village-Nailwalpali, Distt.-Almora, Uttarakhand.  He is a Vaishnav, following the path of Lord Shri Narayan’s shown by Shri.Ramanujacharya.

He was born in a lower middle class family and his father was running a Dhaba shop and that was the source of his family’s earning and survival.  Shri.Prakash Chander started singing when he was in Class III.  He first sang a patriotic song on the occasion of Independence Day in his Govt. school where he was studying. At that time his family could not afford to own a Radio set even.  He used to learn songs being played on AIR etc. in neighbour’s house or somewhere.  Sometimes his elder brother Shri Hari Dutt used to write songs for him to sing in the school functions etc. His specialty in singing is that he never wrote songs to learn but could listen and learn them automatically.  Till date many songs are stored in his memory.  That is how the interest developed and teachers praised his singing and encouraged him.  This went on till he finished schooling in 1989 and passed XII class.  He did participate in various cultural shows of school and a show of Doordarshan also where his school took part.

After finishing his schooling he was eager to learn music in a methodical manner.  He did his Graduation from Delhi University (Distance Learning) and side by side he started doing job to fulfill the need of livelihood.  He joined Shriram Bhartiya Kala Kendra, Mandi House, New Delhi to learn Vocal in the year 1990 under the guidance of Ms.Charanjit Soni who is a renowned TV/AIR singer of light classical vocal (Sister of singer Bhupindra).  He started his first lesson of music from her and he started learning light vocal music like geet, bhajan, ghazal etc. from her.  In 1991 he got admitted himself to Gandharva Mahavidyalaya, New Delhi to learn classical vocal music under the guidance of Shri Sudhanshu Bahuguna upto Sangeeth Visharad and learnt Sangeeth Alankar under the guidance of Pandit Shri Jagdish Mohan.  He got 1st class in Sangeeth Visharad in classical vocal from Gandharva Mahavidyalaya.

He has a very good collection of best film music as part of his hobby and he also has a collection of good literature on poets etc. Presently he is in Govt. Service.   His wife Mrs. Preeti Nailwal was also a student of Gandharva Mahavidyalaya and presently she is a vocalist and performs with him.  He is a proud father of two daughters Baby Prerna & Prakriti Nailwal. 

Shri Prakash Chander has performed on different platforms and trained amateur people in singing and made them to perform in Auditoriums on several occasions. He has directed/conducted many groups in this task for which he has been awarded and rewarded many times.  He has registered a Soceity for cultural promotion called ‘Saraswati Art Creations’ which he hopes will prove to be a big cultural promotional body in the near future.

In 2004-05 he recorded a cassette on Shirdi Sai Baba  ‘Sai Jag Ke Khewaiya’.  He plans to record many more audio Bhajans on lord Rama,  Krishna,Shirdi Saibaba and other deities. He also plans to record a CD on  Sundara Kanda in the near future.

In June 2009 he with his wife was invited by TV channel “Pragya” for an interview cum performance in its morning show ‘Utho Jaago’.

In the month of March 2010 he travelled to Indonesia for a Bhajan programme on the occasion of Hanuman Jayanti on 30.3.2010 which was very successful.  He is always accompanied on Tabla by Shri Prakash Juyal (having matching name) who has been with him for the last 7 years.

At present, with his wife Preeti he is running a music & dance Institute known as Gandhaar Sangeetalaya in Vasundhara which was started in 2004. Many students have passed from his Institute which is imparting musical training as per All India Gandharva Mahavidyalaya Mandal, Mumbai syllabus and the Institute has students from children to elders in Delhi NCR.  With his wife he has performed programmes of bhajan and light music etc. and has been performing on different occasions in Delhi’s many functions sponsored by Sahitya Kala Parishad.  He was selected as Choir Conductor in the 11th ‘Yuva Mahotsav’ in 1998 by Sahitya Kala Parishad.  He has performed in Ram Katha on several occasions.  He regularly performs programmes of Sunder Kand Paath of Shri Hanuman.