Vedanth BharadwajW
Vedanth Bharadwaj

Vedanth Bharadwaj is a vocalist and composer born in Mumbai, India. He is a qualified guitarist from the Trinity College London and is best known for his work with songs and poems from the Bhakti Movement.

Vishmadev ChattopadhyayW
Vishmadev Chattopadhyay

Vishmadev Chattopadhyay was an eminent vocal artist in Indian Classical Music, a revered Guru in the Delhi Gharana of the vocal classical genre, and a music director in Bengali Film Industry in its early era.

Pannalal GhoshW
Pannalal Ghosh

Pandit Pannalal Ghosh, also known as AmalJyoti Ghosh, was an Indian flute (bansuri) player and composer. He was a disciple of Allauddin Khan, and is credited with popularizing the flute as a concert instrument in Hindustani classical music and also the "Pioneer of Indian Classical Flute".

Shujaat KhanW
Shujaat Khan

Shujaat Husain Khan is an Indian musician and sitar player of the Imdadkhani gharana. He has recorded over 60 albums and was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best World Music Album for his work with the band Ghazal with Iranian musician Kayhan Kalhor. He also sings frequently. His style of sitar playing, known as gayaki ang, aims to imitate the human voice.

Shanno KhuranaW
Shanno Khurana

Shanno Khurana is a noted Indian classical vocalist and composer, from the Rampur-Sahaswan gharana of Hindustani classical music. A disciple of the doyen of the gharana, Ustad Mushtaq Hussain Khan, she is known for performing rare bandish and raag, though her singing style includes genres like khayal, tarana, thumri, dadra, tappa, to chaiti and bhajan. Born and brought up in Jodhpur, she started singing on All India Radio in 1945 in Lahore, later shifted to Delhi, where she continued her singing on All India Radio, Delhi and in concerts and music festivals. She also pursued music education, finally earning her M. Phil. and PhD in music from the Kairagarh University, and has undertakes extensive research on folk music of Rajasthan.

Gokulotsavji MaharajW
Gokulotsavji Maharaj

Dr. Pandit Gokulotsavji Maharaj is an world-renowned Indian classical singer, composer, musicologist of Hindustani Classical music.

Ronu MajumdarW
Ronu Majumdar

Ronu Majumdar is an Indian flautist in the Hindustani classical music tradition.

Raghunath PanigrahiW
Raghunath Panigrahi

Pandit Raghunath Panigrahi was an Odissi music Guru, vocalist, composer and music director. A noted singer of the Gita Govinda. He also sang in the popular Telugu movies like Ilavelupu and Jayabheri. He left a promising career in film music in Chennai to provide vocal support to his wife, Sanjukta Panigrahi, a legendary Odissi performer and composer. He also sang for few Odia and Kannada movies. He made a lifetime contribution of promoting, propagating and popularizing the life and works of Jayadeva and the cult of Lord Jagannatha.

Raghunandan PanshikarW
Raghunandan Panshikar

Pandit Raghunandan Panshikar is a Hindustani classical vocalist. He has received training in the Jaipur gharana His music reflects the quintessential style of the Jaipur-Atrauli gharana - a full throated akaar, dazzling tans and layakari, and a refined use of meend and gamak, Shri. Raghunandan Panshikar has established his unique treatment to classical singing. A versatile artist, he sings semi classical forms like Bhajans, Thumris, Gazals and Natya Sangeet with panache. Recipient of several prestigious awards, Shri. Raghunandan Panshikar has made his mark in performances throughout the nation as well as in Europe, the United States and the Middle east.

K. C. Kesava PillaiW
K. C. Kesava Pillai

Kanakku Chembakaraman Kesava Pillai (1868–1914) was an Indian composer of Carnatic music and a poet of Malayalam literature. He was the Poet Laureate of Travancore and was known for Kesaveeyam, a mahakavya in Malayalam, two attakathas and several bhajans and kirtans. He also translated the Sanskrit text, Narayaniyam, into Malayalam under the title, Bhashanarayaniyam.

Rishab PrasannaW
Rishab Prasanna

Rishab Prasanna is an Indian flute or bansuri player. He was born in New Delhi. He is the son of the flute and shehnai player Rajendra Prasanna.

Taufiq QureshiW
Taufiq Qureshi

Taufiq Qureshi is an Indian classical musician. He is a percussionist and a composer.

B. SasikumarW
B. Sasikumar

B. Sasikumar is a noted Carnatic music violinist, musician, teacher, composer and writer from Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India.

Sethu Parvathi BayiW
Sethu Parvathi Bayi

Moolam Thirunal Sethu Parvathi Bayi (1896–1983), better known as Amma Maharani, was the Junior Maharani (Queen) of Travancore as well as a promoter of Indian Classical music. She was the mother of Chithira Thirunal Balarama Varma, the last King of Travancore.

Anupam ShobhakarW
Anupam Shobhakar

Anupam Shobhakar is an Indian musician, composer, instrumentalist, record producer, and classically trained sarodist currently living in Brooklyn, New York. He has released three world fusion albums, and one classical Indian music album. He has performed live around the world at various venues and for charitable causes. Shobhakar's track "Water" made it to the first round of the Grammy Awards.

Jagjit SinghW
Jagjit Singh

Jagjit Singh, born Jagmohan Singh Dhiman, popularly known as "The Ghazal King" or "King of Ghazals", was an Indian composer, singer and musician. He composed and sang in numerous languages and is credited for the revival and popularity of ghazal, an Indian classical art form, by choosing poetry that was relevant to the masses and composing them in a way that laid more emphasis on the meaning of words and melody evoked by them. In terms of Indian Classical music, his style of composing and Gayaki (singing) is considered as Bol-pradhan, one that lays emphasis on words. He highlighted this in his music for films such as Prem Geet (1981), Arth (1982), and Saath Saath (1982), and TV serials Mirza Ghalib (1988) and Kahkashan (1991). Singh is considered to be the most successful ghazal singer and composer of all time in terms of critical acclaim and commercial success. With a career spanning five decades and many albums, the range and breadth of his work has been regarded as genre-defining.

Jyotsna SrikanthW
Jyotsna Srikanth

Jyotsna Srikanth is an Indian violinist and composer, performing Carnatic music and Western classical music.

Rabindranath TagoreW
Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore was a Bengali poet, writer, composer, philosopher and painter. He reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Author of the "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse" of Gitanjali, he became in 1913 the first non-European as well as the first lyricist to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Tagore's poetic songs were viewed as spiritual and mercurial; however, his "elegant prose and magical poetry" remain largely unknown outside Bengal. He is sometimes referred to as "the Bard of Bengal".

Saraswati VidyardhiW
Saraswati Vidyardhi

Saraswati Vidyardhi is a Carnatic vocalist and composer from Andhra Pradesh, India. She has won critical acclaim for her intensive research in Anumandra sthai (octave). She is capable of singing notes below the mandra shadjam up to the anumandra shadjam, and has also unearthed rare Panchamantya ragas.