The gharana takes its name from the Mewat that includes some parts of Haryana and Rajasthan. This musical style was founded by Ghagge Nazir Khan, son of Bade Mohammed Khan of the Gwalior gharana and ...

In Hindustani music, a gharana is a family or school linking singers or instrumental players through a shared lineage. Rajasthan’s Mewati Gharana goes back to the 16th century, and its most famous ...

Pandit Jasraj is in a playful mood as he sits down for the joint tete-a-tete with his daughter, TV host and artist promoter Durga. Panditji or Bapu, as the legendary classical vocalist of the Mewati ...

Sangeet Martand Pandit Jasraj, fifth generation classical vocalist of the Mewati gharana, is known for his mellifluous voice and fabulous range. Sometimes they start tuning their instruments and ...

Legendary vocalist of Mewati gharana Padma Vibhushan Pandit Jasraj loved performing in Bhopal, say his friends who knew him for almost 50 years and got the opportunity to host him when he came to the ...

HYDERABAD: It is an annual ritual that the music aficionados of Hyderabad religiously look forward to Pt Motiram – Maniram Sangeet Samaroh that takes place in the cooler months of the Deccan climate.

CHENNAI: As a young girl of eight, she would be happily humming all the songs that her sister learnt from their neighbour Padma Narasimhan, who later on became her first guru. Born and raised in ...

Versatile violin virtuoso Kala Ramnath is one of the most gifted musicians of Mewati gharana whose soulful strains have enraptured the art aficionados of the East and the West. Versatile violin ...

One of India’s foremost Indian classical violinists, she belongs to the Mewati gharana, and has performed and studied with Mewati vocalist, the Pandit Jasraj for 20 years Pandit Jasraj used to call me ...

Legendary Indian classical vocalist Pandit Jasraj, a doyen of Mewati Gharana, turned 87 this year. New Delhi: On the eve of his 87th birthday, Pandit Jasraj is in no mood for serious questions on ...

Last week, Pandit Jasraj, living legend of the Mewati gharana, turned 90. A gharana like Pandit Jasraj’s comes into existence when at least three generations of family perform the same style of music.

Very few Indian classical music maestros have elicited the kind of adulation, love and affection in both India and abroad that Padma Vibhushan Pandit Jasraj has. The celebrated exponent of Hindustani ...