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Ram Narayan
Indian classical sarangi player (1927–2024)
Zakir Hussain
Indian tabla player, musical producer, film actor, and composer (1951–2024)
Tansen
Rāmtanu Panday ( – 26 April 1589), popularly referred to as Mian Tānsen (), or Sangeet Samrāt (), was a Hindustani classical musician. Born into a Hindu Gaur Brahmin family in Gwalior, he learnt and perfected his art in the northwest region of modern Madhya Pradesh. He got his first break as musician and composer in the court of Raja Man Singh Tomar of Gwalior and spent most of his adult life in the court and patronage of the Hindu king of Rewa, Raja Ramchandra Singh Baghel (r. 1555–1592), where Tānsen's musical abilities and studies gained widespread fame. This reputation brought him to
Shivkumar Sharma
Indian classical musician (1938–2022)
Muthuswami Dikshitar
Indian poet and composer
Bharata Muni
Classical Sanskrit musicologist and drama theorist
Alla Rakha
Indian tabla player (1919–2000)
U. Srinivas
Indian musician (1969–2014)
Tallapaka Annamacharya
Tallapaka Annamacharya (; 9 May 1408 – 23 February 1503), also known as Annamayya, was a Telugu composer and Hindu saint. Born in Thallapaka, he composed devotional songs known as saṁkīrtanas in praise of Venkateswara, a form of Vishnu. He is the earliest known Indian musician to utilize this song form.
Lakshminarayana Subramaniam
Indian musician (1947— )
Jayaram
Jayaram is an Indian actor who works predominantly in Malayalam cinema, in addition to Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Hindi and Sanskrit films. He is also a chenda percussionist, mimicry artist, and occasional playback singer. Jayaram has acted in more than 200 films and received several awards, including the Padma Shri, two Kerala State Film Awards, two Kerala Film Critics Association Awards, one Tamil Nadu State Film Awards, one South Indian International Movie Awards, four Filmfare Awards South and seven Asianet Film Awards. He became one of the Superstars of the Malayalam film industry through th
Sultan Khan
Indian musician (1940–2011)
Sabri Khan
Indian classical musician
Jnan Prakash Ghosh
Indian harmonium and tabla player
Shujaat Khan
Indian musician and Sitar player
Kadri Gopalnath
Indian musician
Kancherla Gopanna
Composer and poet
Buddhadev Das Gupta
Indian classical musician
Taufiq Qureshi
Indian musician
Bickram Ghosh
Indian actor
Tarun Bhattacharya
Indian musician
Zia Mohiuddin Dagar
Indian musician (1929-1990)
Kshetrayya
Shankar Ghosh
Indian musician
Shashank Subramanyam
Indian musician
Bahadur Khan
Indian musician
Swami Haridas
Vrindavan Saint, musician and poet, linked to Bhakti Movement
Guruvayur Dorai
Indian musician
Lachhu Maharaj
Indian tabla player
Kumar Bose
Indian tabla maestro
Suresh Talwalkar
Indian tabla player and guru
Ramesh Mishra
Indian sarangi player
M.S.Anantaraman
Carnatic Musician, Violinist, and Music Teacher (1924-2018)
Arvind Parikh
Hindustani classical sitar player
Akhtar Hussain
Indian singer
Ronu Majumdar
Indian musician
Trivandrum V. Surendran
Indian Mridangam exponent