Ustad Alla Rakha Qureshi was an Indian tabla player who specialised in Hindustani classical music. Widely revered as one of history's most iconic players of the tabla, he was a frequent accompanist of sitar player Pandit Ravi Shankar and was largely responsible for introducing tabla to the Western audience.
In Hindustani music, a gharānā is a system of social organisation in the Indian subcontinent, linking musicians or dancers by lineage or apprenticeship, and more importantly by adherence to a particular musical style.
Raigarh is a city in northern Chhattisgarh known as the 'Cultural capital of Chhattisgarh'; Raigarh is famous for its dance form “Kathak” and classical music; Raigarh is also known as Sanskritidhani.
Pandit Kishan Maharaj was an Indian tabla player who belonged to the Benares gharana of Hindustani classical music.
Bimalendu Mukherjee was an Indian classical sitar player and music teacher.
Nishat Khan is an Indian sitar player from an illustrious musical family and the foremost sitar virtuoso of his generation.
Bhai Lal Mohammad or Bhai Lal Mohammad Amritsari was an Indian and Pakistani classical music singer of the Kapurthala Gharana trained in the Gwalior style of singing.
The Maihar Gharana or Maihar-Senia Gharana is a gharana or school of classical music, a style of Indian classical music originating in the northern parts of the Indian subcontinent. The school was formed by Allaudin Khan in the princely state of Maihar, now in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, and hence the name. Allauddin Khan learnt music from Vina player Wazir Khan, an exponent of the Senia gharana. The Maihar gharana is therefore sometimes referred to as the Maihar-Senia gharana.
Jagdish Prasad was a Calcutta-based Indian classical vocalist of the Patiala gharana.
Samta Prasad was an Indian classical musician and tabla player from the Benares gharana. He played tabla in many Hindi films including, Meri Surat Teri Ankhen (1963) and Sholay (1975), and film music composers Rahul Dev Burman and Bappi Lahiri were his disciples.
Arvind Parikh is an Indian classical sitar player.
Baba Bhaskar Nath is an Indian classical instrumentalist. He plays shehnai. Belonging from the Meerut Shehnai Gharana, he is considered a child prodigy.
Anokhelal Mishra — also spelled as Anokhe Lal Misra and commonly known as Pandit Anokhelal-ji — was an Indian Tablā Artist who belonged to the Banaras Gharana of Hindustani classical music.
Raja Chakradhar Singh was the Raja of Raigarh and Chief of Bargarh ruled by Gond dynasty. He was the ruler of Princely state of Raigarh from 1924 till his death in 1947. He was son of Raja Bhup Deo Singh, who died in 1917.
Raigarh was a princely state in India during the British Raj. The state was ruled by the Gond dynasty of Gond clan.
Pandit Asit Kumar Banerjee is one of the few remaining rudra veena players in India. He is the disciple of Ustad Zia Mohiuddin Dagar, and can play both Sitar and rudra veena. He was the head of the Department of Instrumental Music in The Anand Foundation, Punjab, and has performed many rudra veena concerts both in India and abroad.
Pandit Manilal Nag is an Indian classical sitar player and an exponent of the Bishnupur gharana of Bengal. He was given the Padma Shri Award, the fourth highest civilian award in India in 2020.
Krishn Kanhai is an Indian artist and painter, specialist in portrait, realistic, contemporary paintings and on lord Radha-Krishna theme paintings. A Padmshri awardee, Kanhai is described as an artist with the midas touch.
Lokesh Anand is an Indian shehnai player. He studied with Sangeet Martand Pandit Jasraj and belongs to the Mewati Gharana.
