Pandit Shivkumar Sharma is one of very few instrumentalists who has near-single-handedly put...
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Aruna Sairam’s voice brings a husky authority to modern Carnatic song. She first learnt to sing...
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Fareed Ayaz, Abu Muhammad Qawwal & Brothers are among the world’s very finest exponents of...
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Bhai Anantvir Singh is a renowned kirtan exponent, who has spent a lifetime taking the devotional...
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Rajwinder Kaur is an acclaimed young vocalist who draws on the classical devotional music of the...
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Sudha Ragunathan is a leading light of Carnatic song. She learned bhajans from her mother V...
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Ashwini Bhide-Deshpande’s khayal vocal style draws on her PhD in Biochemistry as well as the...
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Bhai Baldeep Singh is a 13th-generation Sikh vocalist who also plays the taus, jori,...
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Bharat Sundar is a young Carnatic vocalist. He first studied under Gayathri Mahesh, and recounts...
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Indrani Mukherjee is a vocalist from Kolkata, who performs khayal in the Kirana-Rampur style...
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Kaivalya Kumar Gurav is a leading young Kirana gharana vocalist. His family have long been...
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Kaushiki Chakraborty’s astonishing khayal vocal technique is the result of years of intense...
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Pandit Kedar Bodas is a khayal vocalist, singing in the Gwalior gharana style. His father Pandit...
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The Malladi Brothers (Sreeramprasad and Ravikumar) sing Carnatic vocal music together. They hail...
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Born in Sangli to a family of Maharashtra musicians, Manjiri started learning vocal music aged...
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Manjusha Kulkarni-Patil was born into the Maharashtra village of Sangli, famous for producing...
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Meeta Pandit is a renowned khayal singer from the Gwalior gharana. Her grandfather Pandit Krishna...
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Nina Burmi sings in the Kirana gharana style, tackling khayal, thumri, bhajan, and other forms....
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Omkar Dadarkar’s khayal style is receiving growing plaudits across the world. He first learned...
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Begum Parveen Sultana’s voice is renowned for its extraordinary range, clarity, and versatility....
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Dr. Prabha Atre did not originally play to pursue a musical career. But aged eight, her mother...
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Pandit Rajan Mishra (1951-2021) & Pandit Sajan Mishra grew up in Varanasi, living, breathing,...
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Ramakant Gaikwad is a promising young khayal singer who fuses the Kirana and Patiala gharanas. He...
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Ranjani and Gayatri are two sisters who sing and play Carnatic music on violin. They were born...
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Shashwati Mandal upholds the finest aspects of the Gwalior gharana, the oldest surviving style...
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Shubha Mudgal’s voice is at once primal and contemporary. Her markedly individual style of khayal...
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Pandit Ulhas Kashalkar has taken an extraordinarily deep approach to learning. His father was an...
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Veena Sahasrabuddhe (1948-2016) was an esteemed Hindustani classical vocalist, hailing from...
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Pandit Venkatesh Kumar sings a varied brand of khayal, incorporating influences from across...
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Dr. Vijay Rajput is a khayal singer from Delhi. He trained under various maestros including the...
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Pandit Vinayak Torvi is a renowned khayal vocalist from Karnataka who blends the Kirana, Gwalior,...
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Pandit Budhaditya Mukherjee is revered for his extraordinary command of the sitar and surbahar,...
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Ustad Amjad Ali Khan’s illustrious career has lasted almost seven decades since his debut at the...
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Anupama Bhagwat’s sitar style exemplifies the best elements of the Imdadkhani gharana -...
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Arshad Khan is a leading exponent of the esraj, a rare bowed-fretted instrument from Bengal, long...
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Ayan Sengupta’s sitar style expertly blends the vocalistic turns of his gurus, who include...
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Pandit Bharat Bhushan Goswami has mastered the expressive versatility of classical sarangi. His...
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D Srinivas is a superbly talented veena exponent from Hyderabad. He studied in the family, making...
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Pandit Debashish Bhattacharya is both a radical and a traditionalist. Like many Hindustani stars,...
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Pandit Debashish Bhattacharya is a leading sarod maestro from Kolkata. He started training under...
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Debasmita Bhattacharya is one of India’s finest young sarod players. She balances a deep...
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Dhruv Bedi is one of India’s most promising young sitarists. The son of sitar...
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Akram Khan may be trained in classical kathak dance, but he is not a classicist. Born in...
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Pandit Anindo Chatterjee is one of the most accomplished tabla players of the modern age, known...
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Arjun Kumar was born into a family of mridangam artists, and upholds their renowned style on the...
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Ustad Bahauddin Dagar is a torchbearer of the Dagarvani Dhrupad, known for its patient,...
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British-Austrian percussionist Bernhard Schimpelsberger brings a deep affinity with Indian rhythm...
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Born in Kolkata to esteemed tabla artist Pandit Shankar Ghosh and vocalist Sanjukta Ghosh,...
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Debjit Patitundi is a young tabla maestro. He took up the instrument aged four, learning first...
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G Guruprasanna is an expert Carnatic percussionist, specialising in the kanjira. He trained under...
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Ganesh & Kumaresh Rajagopalan are Carnatic music’s foremost violin brothers, having performed...
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Ghatam Giridhar Udupa learned all of Carnatic music’s main percussion instruments...
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Gurdain Rayatt is one of Europe’s finest young tabla players. Though UK-based, his style...
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Harjinderpal Singh Matharu is among Europe’s leading santoor players. He studied Punjab...
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Harmeet Virdee is a leading British-based sitar exponent. He has performed on the BBC and at a...
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Ustad Irshad Khan hails from the esteemed Imdadkhani sitar gharana - named for...
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JA Jayanth 'Flute' has fully earned his nickname. As a child his grandmother VS Sundar gave him a...
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Jayanthi Kumaresh’s Saraswati veena is an ancient instrument, named after the Hindu goddess of...
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Pandit Jayateerth Mevundi is one of the Kirana gharana’s leading vocalists. Born in Hubli, his...
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Jesse Bannister deviated from the constrictions of his jazz school curriculum to delve deep into...
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Jyoti Hegde is among the world’s leading rudra veena players. Sitar was her first love, and she...
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Jyotsna Srikanth’s sliding violin is a mainstay of Europe’s global music circuit. Aged five she...
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Kala Ramnath is one of India’s most adept violinists, sliding around the fretboard in a...
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Kamal Sabri carries his family’s musical tradition forward to a seventh generation. He absorbed...
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Kaviraj Singh is one of Europe’s leading young Hindustani musicians. Born in the UK to Dharambir...
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Kiranpal Singh is an esteemed santoor artist, born in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, but resident in...
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Pandit Kumar Bose is one of the modern world’s most exciting tabla players. He trained under...
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Pandit Kushal Das is a leading master of both the sitar and surbahar, with a style that builds on...
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The Lalgudi siblings are the torchbearers of their eponymous violin gharana, named for their late...
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Madhavi Mudgal is a living legend of odissi dance, renowned for deep insight into its history and...
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Pandit Manu Seen has enjoyed international recognition as one of Ustad Shahid Parvez’ senior...
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Mavin Khoo status as one of bharatanatyam’s most exciting modern innovators demonstrates the...
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Milind Kulkarni is a modern exponent of Hindustani classical harmonium. Starting at the age of...
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Mita Nag is the sixth generation of sitarists in her family - a lineage including Pandit Manilal...
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Momin Khan is a rising star of the sarangi. Born into a family of musicians stretching back eight...
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Mysore Manjunath and Mysore Nagaraj are among Carnatic music’s leading violinists. Trined...
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Nahid Siddiqui is one of the world’s leading kathak dancers. She infuses deep, personal artistry...
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Pandit Nayan Ghosh is notable for his mastery of both sitar and tabla. Rhythmically, he draws...
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Neyveli B Venkatesh is a Chennai-based mridangam player. His rhythm training began under his...
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Niladri Kumar is known for his expansive modern sitar style, stretching the boundaries of...
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Ustad Nishat Khan hails from the illustrious Imdadkhani sitar gharana - named for his...
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Pandit Nirmalya Dey is a master vocalist of the Dagarvani Dhrupad, known for patient, detailed...
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Pandit Nityanand Haldipur is among the Maihar gharana’s leading bansuri exponents. He was a...
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Ojas Adhiya combines extraordinary technical aptitude with a vast knowledge base, playing with a...
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Pandit Parimal Chakraborty is a powerful tabla player. He gives new life to the ideas of his...
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Parupalli Subbaraya (P.S.) Phalgun is an experienced mridangam maestro, known for rhythmic...
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“The word tradition has another word hiding within it: addition. Tradition continues when you...
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Pelva Naik is one of India’s finest young Dhrupad vocalists. She is also one of the few women who...
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Praashekh Borkar is rapidly gaining recognition as one of India’s finest young sarod players. His...
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Pratik Shrivastava is a talented young sarod player, known for crystal clear taans (melodic...
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Pandit Praveen Sheolikar was born into a family of reputed violinists from Raipur, and trained...
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Pandit Prattyush Banerjee pushes the boundaries of the modern sarod, combining superb solo...
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Pravin Godkhindi is an eclectic classical flautist, performing Hindustani music on the bansuri....
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Pandit Premkumar Mallick is a leading exponent of the Darbhanga Dhrupad court music tradition,...
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What do writing, music, photography and the law have in common? According to accomplished sitar...
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Rahul Sharma, though born as the son of illustrious santoor master Pandit Shivkumar Sharma, did...
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Pandit Rajendra Prasanna is a leading exponent of both the bansuri and the shehnai, two wind...
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Rajhesh Vaidhya was born into a musical family in Tamil Nadu - his father KM Vaidyanathan played mri...
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Rakesh Chaurasia is an innovative exponent of the modern bansuri (a side-blown subcontinental...
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Pandit Ranendranath ‘Ronu’ Majumdar is a bansuri master from Benares. His father was a...
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Roopa Panesar remains firmly within the Hindustani classical idiom, but brings a distinctive...
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Pandit Rupak Kulkarni is one of today’s finest bansuri exponents, with a style rooted in the...
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Sabir Khan is a rising star of the sarangi. Born into a family of musicians stretching back eight...
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Sahana Banerjee is an esteemed sitarist. Her mother Chhabi Banerjee, a famous singer, and her...
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Precise, powerful, and intricately funky, Pandit Sanju ‘Vishnu’ Sahai embodies the Benares tabla gha...
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Shahbaz Hussain is one of Europe’s finest tabla players. First studying under his father, the...
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Musically, Ustad Shahid Parvez Khan does not compromise. He is totally dedicated to his sitar,...
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Born to a biochemist father in the extraordinarily musical village of Rudrapatna, Shashank...
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Ustad Shujaat Khan hails from the illustrious Etawah (‘Imdadkhani’) gharana alongside greats such...
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Somjit Dasgupta plays various and often rare string instruments, particularly those of Afghan...
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Soumen Nandy is a young tabla maestro from West Bengal. He trained under Pandit Pankaj Chatterjee...
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Soumik Datta is a sarod player from the younger generation, describing himself as ‘a slave to the...
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Pandit Subhankar Banerjee’s eclectic style of tabla is the result of permanently open ears. His...
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Sukhdeep Dhanjal is an eminent UK-based tabla player, and son-in-law to Bhai Gurmeet Singh Virdee, i...
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Sukhwinder Singh (affectionately known as ‘Pinky’) is a singular percussionist, specialising in...
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Pandit Supreet Deshpande is a tabla maestro from the Farukhabad gharana. He studied under his...
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Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri is a living legend of the tabla. Born into a large Bengali family, his...
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Chennai-born Swapnasundari is a leading bharatanatyam dancer and choreographer. Renowned for...
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Tanmay Deochake is one of the world’s most in-demand young harmonium players. He trained under...
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Pandit Tarun Bhattacharya’s santoor style is highly distinctive, borrowing from the melodic...
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Tarun Jasani is a fast-rising British sarod player. He first learned tabla in the Benares gharana...
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Pandit Tejendra Majumdar is a renowned sarod player, hailing from the Senia-Maihar gharana. He...
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Pandit Uday Bhawalkar is a leading Dhrupad singer. As a teenager he trained at the Dhrupad Kendra...
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Dr. Trichy Sankaran is a global ambassador for the mridangam, a double-headed South Indian drum....
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Utsav Lal is the world’s leading player of the fluid piano, a novel creation which features...
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The Lalgudi siblings are the torchbearers of their eponymous violin gharana, named for their late...
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VV Ramanamurthy is a leading mridangam artist. Born to a lineage of Carnatic masters, he was...
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Ustad Wajahat Khan is acclaimed as a sarod master, but hails from the illustrious Imdadkhani...
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Ustad Wasifuddin Dagar is a modern Dhrupad vocal master, blending patient phrases with fine...
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Pandit Yogesh Samsi is one of India’s leading tabla soloists, pushing the instrument’s boundaries...
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Alam Khan was born in California in 1982. He studied sarod under his father, Ustad Ali Akbar Khan...
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Dr. Kadri Gopalnath (1949 - 2019) was one of the most versatile Carnatic musicians and a...
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Sudhir Nayak has provided the perfect harmonium accompaniment to several of India’s most eminent...
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