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Bharatiya Classical Music
Santoor maestro Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma
Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma was born on January 13, 1938, in Jammu to Uma Dutt Sharma, a vocalist and musician (player of Tabla) in...
Real Bharat: 9 year old boy storms the internet with soulful rendition of devotional songs
A video of a small boy singing devotional hymns on a train has stormed the internet. The boy held his audience in rapt attention...
Versatile genius Adibhatla Narayana Das
Ajjada Adibhatla Narayana Das (31 August 1864 – 2 January 1945) was a poet, musician, dancer, linguist and philosopher of Andhra Pradesh. He was born in Ajjada village,...
Cuckoo’s voice- Veena Chitti Babu
Chitti Babu (13 October 1936 – 9 February 1996) was a classical musician from Bharat, and one of the greatest Veena artistes, in the Carnatic Music genre, who became a...
Santoor loses her comrade, Pt. Bhajan Sopori no more
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Santoor player, Pt. Bhajan Sopori (73) passed on Thursday in Gurugram after a prolonged illness. He was diagnosed with Colon Cancer last June.
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Shivji’s mantra: If you’re honest, your music will reflect it
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(The following is an interview that Pandit Shivkumar Sharma gave to Ina Puri, editor of the book "Shiv Kumar Sharma: The Man and his...
Pandit Bhimsen Joshi
Bhimsen Gururaj Joshi was born on February 4, 1922, in the Dharwad district of Karnataka, in a Kannada Madhwa Brahmin family, to Gururaj Joshi...
Sitar Maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar
Sitar maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar was born to a Bengali Brahmin family in Bharat on April 7, 1920, Benares, as the youngest of seven brothers and originally named...
Ustad Bismillah Khan- Maestro of Shehnai
Ustad Bismillah Khan (born Qamaruddin Khan, 21 March 1916 – 21 August 2006), was a Bharatiya musician who was instrumental in popularizing the Shehnai, a reeded...
T R Mahalingam – a musician who made the flute imitate human voice
Tiruvidaimarudur Ramaswamy Mahalingam popularly known as T R Mail was born in Thiruvidaimarudur, Tanjavur district in Tamil Nadu to Ramaswami Iyer and Brahadambal on 6th November,...