Rishi Ranjan was born in Chandigarh, the first planned city of India, in a family with great love of traditional north Indian classical music and introduced to this art at an early age of 5 by his elder brother who also trained in Indian music. He began with vocal music at home later he became a disciple of his Uncle, late Pandit Shri Krishan Sharma, Senior music composer at All India Radio, Rohtak.

Then his interest more came to instrumental music so he became a disciple of Prof. Saroj Ghosh and Sh. Subash Ghosh and started his Indian classical music education in instrumental music.

After completion of Bachelors in Music in vocal and instrumental he went to Bombay and became disciple of Shri Arshad Ahmed, Shri Chintoo Singh, Shri Jayanti Lal Goshar and Shri Dilip Nayar the eminent guitarist, mandolin, rabab players, music arrangers of Ghazal king late Shri Jagjit Singh.

In order to further his knowledge of various styles of playing Guitar, Rabab Mandolin, Rishi continued his training with such masters of this art. 

In 2003 Rishi got the golden opportunity to meet personally with Legend Ustad Ali Akbar Khan and his music passion turned towards learning Sarode, then he met his son Ustad Aashish Khan and became his disciple. Since 2004 Rishi was tutored by Ustad Aashish Khan and his senior disciple Shri Atish Mukhopadhyay to whom he owes most of his expertise in this field.