Thursday 20 February 2020

Classical Singers

                        Classical Singers of India
 (1)Bhimsen Gururaj Joshi

Sangeet Samrat Bhimsen Joshi
Sangeet Samarat
  (4 February 1922 – 24 January 2011)

    Indian vocalist from Karnataka, in the           Hindustani classical tradition.
       He is known for the khayal form of singing.       
       Bhimsen Joshi belongs to Kirana gharana tradition of Hindustani Classical Music.


 In 1998, he was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship, the highest honour conferred by Sangeet Natak Akademi.
Harmonium
  career: 
-Devotional music

-Patriotic music

-Playback singing

Popular Songs by Bhimsen Joshi:


 (2)Ravi Shankar:

Composer Ravi Shankar (7 April 1920 – 11 December 2012)

   Indian musician and a composer of Hindustani classical music.                         He was the best-known proponent of the sitar in the second half of the 20th century.

 Shankar was born to a Bengali Brahmin.His influence on the latter helped popularize the use of Indian instruments in pop music in the latter half of the 1960s. Shankar engaged Western music by writing compositions for sitar and orchestra, and toured the world in the 1970s and 1980s.

Popular Songs By Ravi Shankar: 

 

(3)Lata Mangeshkar:


Gan Kokila

  (born 28 September 1929)

 Lata Mangeshkar is an Indian playback singer and music director. 

 She is one of the best-known and most respected playback singers in India. She has recorded songs in over a thousand Hindi films and has sung songs in over thirty-six regional Indian languages and foreign languages, though primarily in Marathi, Hindi, and Bengali. 

Popular songs by Lata Mangeshkar: 

(4)Kishori Amonkar: 

 
(10 April 1932 – 3 April 2017) 

  Leading Indian classical vocalist, belonging to the Jaipur gharana, or a community of musicians sharing a distinctive musical style.

She was a performer of the classical genre khyal and the light classical genres thumri and bhajan. Amonkar trained under her mother, classical singer Mogubai Kurdikar also from the Jaipur gharana, but she experimented with a variety of vocal styles in her career. 
Popular Songs by Kishori Amonkar: 
Boat Wired Headphone


  Some Other blogs:

  Travelling Passion(Jammu & Kashmir) By Rabiya Ansari:

    The popular place Jammu and Kashmir known as "Heaven On The Earth" is famous for its gorgeous valleys,mountains,lakes,forests and meadows.If you want to plan a trip to Jammu & Kashmir, know more about the place visit the blog for more information like places of attraction and activities.  

 

10 comments:

Classical Instruments

    Classical Instruments Four Major Categories Of Instruments:       Most musical instruments fall into one of four groups, all of which a...