Bhimsen Joshi
Bhimsen
Joshi was born in 1922 at Gadag in Karnatiaka. He was a student of Sawai
Gandharva. In musical lineage he is thus a direct descendant of Ustad
Abdul Karim Khan, founder of the Kirana gharana. He also studied with
other eminent musicians including Ustad Mushtaq hussain Khan of the
Rampur-Sahaswan gharana, acquiring a vigorous style marked by rich musical
imagination. Bhimsen Joshi is known for his systematic elaboration of
ragas in alap, and also for Thumri and Bhajan. He has a large repertoire
of devotional compositions of Purandaradasa.
He received
the Padma Shri in 1972, the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1975, and
the Padma Bhushan in 1985.
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