Indian musician
Lakshmi Shankar
Lakshmi Shankar (born Lakshmi
Sastri, 16 June 1926 – 30 December 2013) was a noted Hindustani
classical vocalist of
the Patiala Gharana. She was known for her
performances of khyal, thumri, and bhajans.[1][2][3] She was the sister-in-law of sitar
player Ravi Shankar and the mother-in-law of violinist L. Subramaniam (her daughter Viji (Vijayashree Shankar) Subramaniam being his first wife).
Born in 1926, Lakshmi started her career in dancing. In
1939, when Uday Shankar brought his dance troupe to Madras (recently
renamed Chennai), she joined the AlmoraCentre to learn Shankar’s dance style
based on the Indian classics, and became a part of the troupe. In 1941, she
married Uday Shankar's brother, Rajendra (nicknamed Raju).
During a period of illness, Lakshmi had to give up dancing,
and already having had a background of Carnatic music, she undertook learning Hindustani
classical music for
many years under Ustad Abdul Rehman Khan. Later, she also trained with Ravi Shankar, the sitar maestro
and youngest brother of Rajendra and Uday.
In 1974, Lakshmi performed in Europe as part of Ravi Shankar's Music Festival from India. Late that same year,
she toured North America with Shankar and George Harrison, who produced the Shankar
Family & Friends album
(1974), including the pop single "I Am Missing You" with vocals by
Lakshmi. Following Ravi Shankar's heart attack during the tour, she conducted
his ensemble of musicians.[4]
SHIVKUMAR SHARMA
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Born
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January 13, 1938
Jammu, British India (nowJammu and Kashmir, India) |
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Origin
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Jammu, India
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1955–present
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Shivkumar Sharma is the master instrumentalist of the
Santoor, after some years as a vocalist. He is credited with making the Santoor
a popular Classical Instrument.[4][9] In a 1999 interview to rediff.com,
Shivkumar said that it was his father who decided that he should play the
Santoor and that he never thought he would be choosing it when he started
learning music.[7] He composed the background music for one
of the scenes in Shantaram's Jhanak
Jhanak Payal Baje[10] in 1956. He recorded his first solo album in1960.[1]
Allah-Rakha Rahman
Rahman
was born in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India in a middle-class Tamil Mudaliar[10] family. His father, R. K. Shekhar, was a film-score composer
and conductor for Tamil and Malayalam films; Rahman assisted his
father in the studio, playing the keyboard. After his father's death when
Rahman was nine years old, the rental of his father's musical equipment
provided his family's income.[11] Raised by his mother, Kareema (born
Kashturi),[1] Rahman was a keyboard player and
arranger for bands such as Roots (with childhood friend and percussionist Sivamani, John Anthony, Suresh Peters, JoJo and Raja)[3] and founded the Chennai-based rock
group Nemesis Avenue.[12]He mastered the keyboard, piano,
synthesizer, harmonium and guitar, and was particularly
interested in the synthesizer because it was the "ideal combination of
music and technology".[13]
Shankar Singh Raghuvanshi
Shankar Singh Raghuvanshi (15 October 1922 – 26
April 1987) was a native of North India, and spent his early years in Hyderabad. During his formative years, Shankar
played the tabla and
learned the art formally from Baba Nasir Khansahib. For many years, Shankar
studied as a disciple of the legendary composer Khawaja Khurshid
Anwar, in whose orchestra he performed.
Shankar started his career with a theater group run
by Satyanarayan and Hemawati, before shifting to Prithvi Theatre where he played tabla and performed
some minor roles in plays. Shankar worked as assistant to the leading composer
duo of Husnlal Bhagatram.
Shankar
Shanar was
born on 7 April 1920 in Varanasi, India, to a Bengali family, as the youngest
of seven brothers.[2][4][5] His father, Shyam Shankar, was a Middle Temple barrister and scholar from East Bengal (now Bangladesh). A respected statesman, lawyer
and politician, he served for several years as dewan(chief minister) of Jhalawar, Rajasthan, and used the Sanskrit spelling
of the family name and removed its last part.[2][6] Shyam was married to Shankar's mother
Hemangini Devi who hailed from a small village named Nasrathpur in Mardah block
of Ghazipur district, near Benares, and her father was a prosperous
landlord. Shyam later worked as a lawyer in London, England,[2] and there he married a second time
while Devi raised Shankar in Varanasi, and did not meet his son until he was
eight years old.[2] Shankar shortened the Sanskrit version
of his first name, Ravindra, to Ravi, for "sun".[2] Shankar had six siblings, only four of
whom lived past infancy: Uday, Rajendra, Debendra and Bhupendra. Shankar
attended the Bengalitola High School in Benares between 1927 and 1928.[citation needed]
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