Hirabai Barodekar was the daughter of the illustrious Abdul Karim Khan and Tarabai. She learnt from her mother, Balkrishna Buwa Kapileshwari, Shankar Buwa, Faiz Mohammad Khan, Gauhar Jan, Vaze Buwa, Govindrao Tembe and from Abdul Waheed Khan Saheb for three years.
Her younger sister, Saraswati Rane, also learnt with her but she also got much training from Naththan Khan of the Jaipur gharana (although this Jaipur influence is rarely reflected in her singing). Hirabai Barodekar and her sister Saraswati Rane have been among the best vocalists of India in twentieth century.
78rpm archives
Janki Bai was famous for her gramophone recordings of thumrees.
According to D.M. Neuman, she received 3 000 Roupees "considered a princely sum at that time" for her recording.
78rpm archives.
Download | Name | Play | Size | Length |
Bhairavi (Jankibai) | 0.7 MB | 2:56 min |
78rpm archives.
Download | Name | Play | Size | Length |
Bhairavi (Kale Khan) | 0.6 MB | 2:37 min |
78rpm archives.
Download | Name | Play | Size | Length |
Dadra (Kashibai) | 0.8 MB | 3:17 min |
Kesarbai Kerkar was born in Goa and learnt from Abdul Karim Khan Saheb (Kirana gharana), Ramkrishna Buwa Waze (Gwalior gharana), Bhaskarbuwa Bhakale (Gwalior, Agra, Jaipur gharanas) and Barkatulla Khan (the sitarist) before becoming the foremost disciple of Alladiya Khan with whom she learnt for twenty years.
She had a wonderful voice which had a great emotional appeal.
78rpm archives.
Born in 1931, she is the worthy daughter of Mogubai Kurdikar.
Listen to her rendering of Bageshree in which she unfolds a bada & chota khayal (slow & fast compositions) in teental (rhythmic cycle of 16 beats)..
Kishoriji is a great exponent of the Jaipur-Atrauli gharana.
From LP record ECSD-2702
22:02
Download | Name | Play | Size | Length |
Bageshree T,T (Kishori Amonkar) | 20.2 MB | 22:02 min |
Krishnarao Shankar Pandit was the son of Shankar Rao Pandit.
He opened the Gandharva Mahavidyalaya in Gwalior which he renamed as Shankar Gandharva Vidyalaya after the death of his father in 1917.
Of his four sons, Narayanrao Pandit and Lakshmanrao Pandit are Radio artists.
78rpm archives
Kumar Gandharva's real name is Shivaputra and is the son of Sidramappa Komkali.
He was the pupil of Pandit B.R. Deodhar who taught him in his Bombay school. He was one of the greatest vocalist of this country who was able - because of his own genious and of the able and broad-minded teaching of Prof. Deodhar - to achieve a veritable fusion of the styles and so, to create a new style of his own.
He composed a number of rags and wrote an excellent book on compositions in common and rare rags : 'Anupa Rag Vilasa' (Pub. Mauj Prakashan, Bombay 4, 1965).
Download | Name | Play | Size | Length |
Gaud Malhar (Kumar Gandharv) | 1.1 MB | 3:13 min | ||
Malawati (Kumar Gandharv) | 2.5 MB | 7:19 min | ||
Shankara (Kumar Gandharv) | 3.1 MB | 3:21 min | ||
Sohini Bhatiyar (Kumar Gandharv) | 2.6 MB | 7:35 min |
78rpm archives.