Artist Profiles: Asha Bhosle
Asha Bhosle’s name is synonymous with two things: Bollywood (also known as filmi, the Indian movie industry) and success. The appetite for Bollywood reaches way…
Artist Profiles: Arati Biswas
Arati Biswas is one of the few renowned female Baul singers from Ghurni village of Krishnanagar-I Block of Nadia district in West Bengal. Discography: Introducing…
Artist Profiles: Babu Fakir
Babu Fakir specializes in Qawwali and Baul/Fakiri songs and is an extremely powerful singer in Fakiri music. Through Qawwali repertoire, he maitains a hundred year…
Artist Profiles: Golam Fakir
Golam Fakir is an acclaimed singer and Dotara player (an instrument much associated with the musical culture of the Bengali people and highly favored by…
Artist Profiles: Kailash Kher
Kailash Kher’s spectacular journey from a humble upbringing to revered pop star, Bollywood playback singer and television celebrity is nothing less then remarkable. It…
Artist Profiles: Krishna Bhatt
Pandit Krishna Bhatt was born into a family of musicians, poets and Sanskrit scholars who for five generations upheld their tradition in Rajasthan. Krishna was…
Artist Profiles: Navin Sharma
Navin Sharma, born in the Ulhasnagar district of Maharashtra (India), in 1975 to a musical family, started studying the dholak at a young age. His…
Artist Profiles: Noor Alam
Noor Alam, from Gorbhanga village in Nadia district in West Bengal, is a skilled Baul, Fakiri and Qawwali singer. Noor is also an outstanding dotara…
Artist Profiles: Sabir Khan
Sabir Khan, born in Jodhpur, Rajasthan (India), belongs to the Sikar gharana (school) of music that has introduced several stalwarts to Indian classical music. He…
Artist Profiles: Sridar Parthasarathy
Sridar Parthasarathy has studied the mrdangam since the age of six as a disciple of Vidwan Shri. Karaikudi R. Chandramouli. During his career, he has…