There was magic in his voice, dedication in his riyaaz and modesty in his nature.
Somjit Dasgupta aims to protect and preserve Radhu Babu’s traditional wealth of instruments and his passion for music.
Coke Studio Pakistan was, majorly, the brainchild of the head of The Coca-Cola Company, Nadeem Zaman. He wanted to create a musical show for Pakistan,
Like with most Anglo-Indians I grew up on a steady dose of Ronnie Milsap, Neil Diamond, Kenny Rogers, Patsy Cline and Tanya Tucker, but later
More than a year before this, on 22 May, 1870, Sourindro Mohun Tagore, the man behind this entire initiative, gave a public lecture on music
I was listening to a CD of an old Joni Mitchell album, and it soon turned out I was playing an awkward historian’s joke on
Khetramohan Goswami (1813-1893) was one of the first-generation musicians of Bishnupur, who trained under Ramshankar Bhattacharya (1761-1853), one of the "founders" of the Bishnupur gharana.
Tarapada Chakraborty was revered by all his peers in the field of Hindustani classical vocal music. “The Nation” magazine, after his performance at the All
He was actually born in Siberia in 1888, but his family came from what would now be Belarus, in what was then imperial Russia. Why
What made Lata Mangeshkar’s live shows a rage with the audience at home & abroad? How did the ‘Lata’ brand survive for nearly eight decades?
Touring with Maharaj ji has been the most enriching learning experience of my musical career. Every tour around the globe meant new places, new people
Neil Nongkynrih was an unusual man. He passed away quietly early this month, on 5th January at the relatively young age of 51, rendering his
Now, he was an associate producer of Indian music for BBC radio programmes, with a mandate to create short episodes introducing Indian music to the
On the one hand, The Disciple is a tribute to Hindustani classical music. On the other, it is a tribute to the guru-shishya parampara.
I carried on practicing and now I play the flute in concerts when given the opportunity. Whatever little I have mastered is by dedication and
And we met and we talked after the show. And I saw he had talent. He was playing guitar backstage doing Twenty Flight Rock by
