Yoshita Chandrani was born and brought up in the cultural city of Baroda, Gujarat, India. She was inspired by her parents to learn classical music at a very young age of 11. She started learning Sitar under the tutelage of Guru Shri Sagar. After initiation into the music and the technique of the instrument, she was groomed for the next 15 years under Gurus Shri Gopalbhai Mistry, his elder brother Shri Kanubhai Mistry, then Head of the Sitar department in the College of Indian Music, Dance and Dramatics of M.S.University, Baroda, and Shri Narayan Bhanwariya. She also had the privilege of learning music under Shri Shrikant Mule who instilled in her heart not only the technical aspect of playing Sitar but the spiritual, layakari and melodic aspect of Hindustani music. Layakari and melody are the parameters which she instills a lot in any Raaga performance.

During her early years she attained “Sangeet Visharad” from Akhil Bruhad Gandharva Mahavidyalaya Gujarat Samiti. After completing her Graduation in Architecture, she earned degrees of Bachelors in Music ( Sitar), and Masters of Performing Arts (Sitar) from M.S.University, Baroda.

When in India, Yoshita was also an All India Radio Artist. She recorded many programs for “Yuva Vani”. She has performed in Baroda, India and in East Africa and in USA.

Yoshita Chandrani founded Heritage Arts Academy to bring to the mainstream the cultural magnificence of Indian Music and Art. She teaches Sitar in New Jersey to young children and adults serving the Tristate area.

According to her, Hindustani Music is a spiritual journey through spatial imagination, with the help of musical notes of the ragas, is nothing but a tapestry woven with sounds in one's own soul space. It is divine and is not for worldly entertainment but to invoke and lovingly pamper the emotions of the mind and soul.