Jayanthi Kumaresh’s Saraswati veena is an ancient instrument, named after the Hindu goddess of arts and learning. But her gently electrified version produces a strikingly guitaristic tone, igniting Carnatic classical melodies with...
Sudha Ragunathan is a leading light of Carnatic song. She learned bhajans from her mother V Choodamani in childhood, and went on to be the star disciple of ML Vasanthakumari. Her guru...
Omkar Dadarkar is an ‘edgy, comtemporary, and up-and-coming’ Hindustani classical vocalist, specialising in khayal, and is an exponent of the Gwalior Gharana tradition. Born in Mumbai in 1977, to Shrikant Dadarkar and...
Pandit Bharat Bhushan Goswami has mastered the expressive versatility of classical sarangi. His grandfather, Pandit Anmol Chand Goswami, was a noted exponent of Haveli Sangeet, an ancient form of North Indian devotional...
Momin Khan is a rising star of the sarangi. Born into a family of musicians stretching back eight generations, his grandfather Ustad Mehboob Khan was known as Sarangi Samrat (Emperor of Sarangi)....
Pandit Rupak Kulkarni is one of today’s finest bansuri exponents, with a style rooted in the Maihar gharana. He is the leading student of Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia, having been accepted as the...
As a kid, Ken Zuckerman wanted to be a professional baseball player. American-born, he moved to Basel (Switzerland) with his parents when he was very young. Singing came naturally to him, but...
Identical twins Haroon and Sharoon might have audiences swooning to reinterpretations of the most popular music today (think Calm Down and the iconic qawwali Sanson ki Mala) but their journey is steeped...
Ashwini Bhide-Deshpande’s khayal vocal style draws on her PhD in Biochemistry as well as the traditions of her illustrious musical family. Her grandmother played dilruba, and she first received instruction from her...