Bhimsen Joshi

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Bhimsen Joshi
ಭೀಮಸೇನ ಜೋಷಿ
भीमसेन जोशी
Book cover of a Marathi biography showing Bhimsen Joshi performing
Book cover of a Marathi biography showing Bhimsen Joshi performing
Background information
Birth name Bhimsen Gururaj Joshi
ಭೀಮಸೇನ ಗುರುರಾಜ ಜೋಷಿ
Born February 14, 1922
Origin Gadag, Karnataka
Genre(s) Hindustani Classical Music - Khayal and light forms
Occupation(s) Hindustani Classical Vocalist
Years active 1941 – present
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Pandit Bhimsen Gururaj Joshi (Kannada : ಪಂಡಿತ ಭೀಮಸೇನ ಗುರುರಾಜ ಜೋಷಿ.Born February 14, 1922) is a renowned vocalist in India. A descendant of the Kirana Gharana (stream) of Hindustani classical music tradition, he is particularly renowned for Khayal form singing.


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[edit] Background

The education of this music form, till first half of 20th century, was carried out through Master-disciple (or the Guru Shishya) tradition. Sawai Gandharva was the chief disciple of Abdul Karim Khan, who along with his cousin Abdul Waheed Khan was the founder of the Kirana Gharana school of Hindustani music.

[edit] Early life

Pandit Bhimsen Joshi was born in a small town Gadag, in the Dharwad district of Karnataka in South India. His father was a conservative school-master. In 1933, the 11-year-old Bhimsen left his home on his own to learn singing through Guru-Shishya (or the Master-disciple) tradition. He spent three years in Gwalior, Lucknow and Rampur in North India trying to find a good guru. His father succeeded in tracking him and bringing young Bhimsen back home.

In 1936, Rambhau Kundgolkar, popularly known as Sawai Gandharva, agreed to teach Bhimsen in Hindustani classical music. Bhimsen Joshi stayed with Sawai Gandharva between 1936 and 1940. He then left his guru and set out on his own with a strict regimen of up to sixteen hours of daily riyaz (practice).

Bhimsen Joshi first performed live at the age 19. His debut album, a few devotionals songs in Kannada and Hindi, was released when he was 20.

Later he was to start an annual classical musical festival called the Sawai Gandharva Music Festival' in the memory of his guru. This festival is held in Pune every December.

When S M Krishna was CM of Karnataka Bhimsen Joshi offered him to bring rain by his singing prowess to drought hit north Karnataka.Also his famous Bhagyada Lakshmi Baaramma sung for Kannada movie(playback for Anant Nag) with so much of devotion that it is heard in every household of the state.

His son Sriniwas also is a vocalist and a composer.

[edit] Awards and recognitions

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