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Category: Artist Profiles

Badal Roy - photo by Greg Plachta - courtesy Music of the World
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Artist Profiles: Badal Roy

Angel Romero July 14, 2018 No Comments Badal RoyIndiaIndian classical music

Amerendra ‘Badal’ Roy Choudhury arrived in New York in 1968 with a pair of tablas and eight dollars in his pocket. In three days he…

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Artist Profiles: Ashwin Batish

Angel Romero July 14, 2018 No Comments Ashwin BatishIndiaIndian classical musicsitarworld fusion

Ashwin Batish is a composer, performer, teacher of music, and recording artist. He was born in Bombay (now Mumbai), India. His field of expertise includes…

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Artist Profiles: Ashim Mallick

Angel Romero July 14, 2018 No Comments Ashim MallickIndiaIndian classical musicsitar

Sitar player Ashim Mallick was born and brought up in a family where music is the first passion. Ashim started learning Sitar at the age…

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Artist Profiles: Ananda Shankar

Angel Romero July 14, 2018 No Comments Ananda ShankarIndiaIndian music

Ananda was born in Almora, Uttar Pradesh in 1942. The son of dancers Uday and Amala Shankar and the nephew of Pandit Ravi Shankar, he…

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Artist Profiles: Amjad Ali Khan

Angel Romero July 14, 2018 1 Comment Amjad Ali KhanIndiaIndian classical musicsarod

Extraordinary New Dehli sarod player Amjad Ali Khan has established a reputation as one of the living legends of Indian classical instrumental music and is…

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Artist Profiles: Arnab Chakrabarty

Angel Romero July 14, 2018 No Comments Arnab ChakrabartyIndiaIndian classical music

Arnab Chakrabarty was born in Bombay, India, in 1979. His musical training started at the age of three and by the time he was five,…

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Artist Profiles: Anjan Chattopadhya

Angel Romero July 14, 2018 No Comments Anjan ChattopadhyaIndiaIndian music

Sitar maestro Anjan Chattopadhyay was born in a family of culture and aristocracy, in Calcutta. He was brought up in an environment of soft, sweet…

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Artist Profiles: Ambi Subramaniam

Angel Romero July 13, 2018 No Comments Ambi SubramaniamIndian musicUnited States of Americaviolin

Ambi Subramaniam was born August 5, 1991 in Los Angeles, California, the son of violin maestro L. Subramaniam. Ambi gave his first performance at the…

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Sarod Maestro Alam Khan

Angel Romero July 13, 2018 No Comments Alam KhanIndiaIndian musicsarod

Sri Alam Khan, the son of Swara Samrat Ali Akbar Khan, studied sarod with his father since he was seven. At his first performance he…

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Artist Profiles: Ajay-Atul

Angel Romero July 13, 2018 No Comments Ajay-AtulIndiaIndian music

Ajay-Atul is the artistic name of Indian music composers Ajay and Atul Gogavale. Their credit list includes scores for “Shock,” “Viruddh. . . Family Comes…

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