Chatrapati Singh

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Raja Chatrapati Singh (born 1919) was an Indian percussionist. He was famous for his virtuosity on on Pakhavaj drums used in Hindustani Classical Music.

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Chatrapati (also spelled Chhatrapati) Singh Ju Deo was born in the Royal family of Bijna State in Madhya Pradesh, India. His grandfather Raja Mukund Singh and father Raja Himmat Singh were partrons of music. He showed a great deal of interest in music from a very early age and started learning Pakhavaj from a number of masters including Shri Kadau Singh Ji and Swami Ramdas Ji. He became the foremost exponent of Pakhavaj of his era. He accompanied all the great Dhrupad vocalists including the Dagar Brothers and Pt. Ram Chatur Malik.

He was awarded with the Sangeet Natak Akademi award in 1991.

Apart from music he was very fond of chess and mathematics and has written a treatise on knight moves in chess called "Ashwa Nirupan Granth".

Raja Chatrapati Singh died in 1998.

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