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Shivkumar Sharma – Free listening, concerts, stats, & pictures at Last.fm
Shivkumar Sharma (born January 13, 1938) is an Indian classical musician, working in the Hindustani classical music tradition. He is a master of the santoor, a folk instrument from the valley of Kashmir. It is a type of hammered dulcimer whose strings are struck with a pair of light carved wooden mallets. Before him the santoor was regarded as only an accompanying instrument. He is credited with single-handedly making the santoor a popular classical instrument, to the extent that the santoor and Pandit Shivkumar Sharma are synonymous. Sharma modified the Kashmiri folk instrument to make it more suitable for his classical technique, increasing the range of the instrument to three full octaves and making it capable of a smoother meend (the glissando or gliding between notes required in Hindustani classical music to emulate the human voice).
Bhimsen Joshi – Free listening, videos, concerts, stats, & pictures at Last.fm
Pandit Bhimsen Gururaj Joshi (Kannada : ಪಂಡಿತ ಭೀಮಸೇನ ಗುರುರಾಜ ಜೋಷಿ. Marathi: पंडित भीमसेन जोशी is one of the most popular and respected names in contemporary music. Familiar even to the musically illiterate, Bhimsen Joshi is noted for his extraordinarily rich and sonorous voice and has been ruling the musical world for over four decades. Pandit Joshi is a versatile singer; he is an expert in khayal singing but he is also adept in the presentation of thumris, songs from plays, or devotional compositions.
Hariprasad Chaurasia (b. 1st July 1938) is known internationally as the greatest living master of the bansuri , the North Indian bamboo flute. Chaurasia is among the small but growing number of classicists who have made a conscious effort to reach out and expand the audience for classical music. He is probably the most accessible Hindustani musician, and has done much to popularise the bansuri and classical music.
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Ustad Amjad Ali Khan is a highly acclaimed Indian sarod player and composer. Khan was born in Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh in 1945, is the sixth-generation sarod player in his family and his ancestors have developed and shaped the instrument over several hundred years. “You could say it’s my family instrument”, says Khan, “Whoever is playing the sarod today learned directly or indirectly from my forefathers.”
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Now in his 50s and one of the leading sitar players of his generation, Ustad Shahid Parvez was a child prodigy who began receiving instruction from his father in singing and tablas at the age of three, and sitar at the age of four. His style has been influenced by his father’s cousin, famous musician Ustad Vilayat Khan.
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Ustad Rashid Khan (b. Badayun 1966-07-01) is an Indian classical musician in the North Indian Hindustani music tradition. He belongs to the Rampur-Sahaswan Gharana, and is the great grandson of Gharana founder Ustad Inayat Hussain.
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Pandit Jasraj – Free listening, videos, concerts, stats, & pictures at Last.fm
Sangeet Martand Pandit Jasraj is one of the leading vocalists in the North Indian classical tradition. He comes from a family which includes four generations of outstanding musicians, began his training under the tutelage of his father, although he started with the tabla and continued with extensive training by his brother. He has a sonorous voice which spans three and a half octaves and which is at once both spiritual and emotional. His family is well known for singing in the Mewati Gharana style. Motiramji died when Jasrajji was only four, on the day he was to be appointed as the state musician in the court of the Last Nizam.[3]Girija Devi – Free listening, concerts, stats, & pictures at Last.fm
Girija Devi (Hindi: गिरिजा देवी; IAST: Girijā Ḍhevī) (born 1929) is an Indian classical singer of the Banaras gharana. She performs classical and light classical music and has helped elevate the profile of thumri. Devi performs the purabi ang thumri style typical of the tradition and her repertoire includes the semi-classical genres kajri, caiti, and holi and she sings khyal, Indian folk music, and tappa. The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians states that her semi-classical singing combines her classical training with the regional characteristics of the songs of Bihar and eastern Uttar Pradesh.
Ajoy Chakrabarty – Free listening, concerts, stats, & pictures at Last.fm
Ajoy Chakrabarty (b. 1953) is a classical vocalist of Patiala Gharana. He took early musical lessons from his father Ajit Chakrabarty, followed by Pannalal Samanta, Kanai Das Bairagi, and Pandit Jnan Prakash Ghosh. In 1969, he became a disciple of Ustad Munawar Ali Khan, a son of Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan.
