Bhimsen Joshi

 

Pandit Bhimsen Gururaj Joshi (4 February 1922 – 24 January 2011) was an Indian vocalist from Karnataka, in the Hindustani classical tradition. He is known for the khayal form of singing, as well as for his popular renditions of devotional music (bhajans and abhangs). Bhimsen Joshi belongs to the Kirana gharana tradition of Hindustani Classical Music. Pt. Joshi is noted for his concerts, and between 1964 to 1982 Joshi toured Afghanistan, Italy, France, Canada and USA. He was the first musician from India whose concerts were advertised through posters in New York city, United States. Bhimsen Joshi was instrumental in organising the Sawai Gandharva Music Festival annually, as homage to his guru, Pandit Sawai Gandharva.

 

In 1998, he was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship, the highest honour conferred by Sangeet Natak Akademi, India's National Academy for Music, Dance and Drama. Subsequently, he received the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian honour, in 2009.

 

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Indian musicians who have won the Grammy award.

When Sandeep Das from India won at the Grammy Awards in the World Music category in 2017, not many people knew about it. Many Indians have won what’s considered the most prestigious award in the music industry but these musical geniuses and maestros are still unknown faces to the world. We shine a spotlight on some of these winners.

Sandeep Das

Boston-based percussionist Sandeep Das studied English Literature at the Varanasi University and went on to become one of the best contemporary tabla players in the world. Sandeep founded Harmony and Universality through Music (HUM) to perform in different parts of the world and draw people’s attention to specially-abled children.

Late Pandit Ravi Shankar

Pandit (Master) Ravi Shankar won three Grammy Awards in his lifetime. He was a Bengali musician and probably the best sitar player the world has seen. His international tours were the reason Indian classical music got popular in Western pop music. He was born in 1920 in Varanasi and was a dancer before he turned to music, training in Hindustani Classical music and playing the sitar. His daughter Anoushka Shankar is a prolific sitar player today.

Pandit Ravi Shankar won three Grammy Awards in his career

Ustad Zakir Hussain

Ustad Zakir Hussain was born to the most famous tabla player in India, Alla Rakha. Zakir turned out to be just like his father, an exceptional tabla player who started his training very young. He had started touring even before he hit his teens and won the Grammy for Best World Music Album in 1992. He loves to collaborate with musicians from different parts of the world to create unique music with his own expertise in tabla.

Ustad Zakir Hussain followed his father’s footsteps to become a tabla player

Vishwa Mohan Bhatt

Vishwa Mohan Bhatt is a Hindustani Classical instrumentalist who plays an instrument called Mohan Veena, or the slide guitar. At the 1993 Grammy Awards he won in the Best World Music category for his album A Meeting By The River with Ry Cooder. The 67-year-old musician lives with his family in Rajasthan.

Vishwa Mohan Bhatt plays the slide guitar 

T H Vinayakram

Very few people know about T H Vinayakram, a.k.a Vikku Vinayakram in India, let alone the world. He is a master at playing the Ghatam, an earthen pot used as a musical instrument. He was part of Planet Drum’s team with Mickey Hart in 1991 that won the Grammy Award for Best World Music Album. He is the only South Indian trained in Carnatic music to have received the award.

Not many in India know about talented musician T H Vinayakram 

A R Rahman

A R Rahman is a living legend in India. His contributions to the Indian music industry have been acknowledged with many awards, but one of his biggest achievements was when he won a Grammy twice for Danny Boyle’s film Slumdog Millionaire in 2010. The musician often composes songs for Bollywood and is one of the most sought-after music artists India has ever produced.

A R Rahman won the Oscar for Slumdog Millionare 

H Sridhar

Late H. Sridhar was a mathematics graduate, an engineer and a musician. He was a sound engineer and worked closely with A R Rahman through his entire career. Sridhar won the Grammy Award in 2010 for Best Compilation Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture with Rahman for the film Slumdog Millionaire. H. Sridhar left behind a legacy when he died in 2008.

P A Deepak

P A Deepak is a sound engineer and record producer who won the Grammy with A R Rahman for Slumdog Millionaire. Deepak works closely with Rahman and has worked with him in countless films in India. Recently, he also mixed an edition of another song called Winds of Samsara by Indian musician Ricky Kej that won the Grammy Award for New Age Album in 2015.

Ricky Kej

Ricky Kej won the Grammys in 2015 in the Best New Age Album category. His album Winds of Samsara was a collaboration with a South African falutist Wouter Kellerman. Ricky studied dentistry but left it to pursue music. The American citizen started as a keyboardist and is a self-taught musician