Bansi vibhushit pandit jasraj biography

Jasraj 28 January [ 4 ] — 17 August [ 5 ] was an Indian classical vocalist , belonging to the Mewati gharana musical apprenticeship lineage. His musical career spanned 75 years resulting in national and international fame, respect and numerous major awards and accolades. His legacy includes memorable performances of classical and semi-classical vocal music, classical and devotional music, albums and film soundtracks, innovations in various genres including Haveli Sangeeth and popularizing the Mewati Gharana — a school of thought in Hindustani classical music.

Jasraj was born on 28 January [ 4 ] in Pili Mandori, a village in the then Hisar district now in Fatehabad district of Haryana , [ note 1 ] in an artistic Brahmin family [ 6 ] to Pandit Motiram , a classical singer and Krishna Bai. Motiram died in when Jasraj was four, on the day he was to be appointed as the state musician in the court of Mir Osman Ali Khan.

Listen to Bansi Vibhushit from Pandit Jasraj's Om Namo Bhagwate Vasudevaya Jasraj was born in Hisar, Haryana in an orthodox Brahmin family to.

Jasraj's elder brother, Pandit Pratap Narayan , was also an accomplished musician and was the father of music composer duo Jatin—Lalit , singer-actress Sulakshana Pandit and actress Vijeta Pandit. Pandit Pratap Narayan taught Jasraj to play tabla starting at age 7, but Jasraj decided that he wanted to only sing by Jasraj spent his youth in Hyderabad , and travelled often to Sanand in Gujarat to study music with musicians of the Mewati gharana.

In , Jasraj moved to Calcutta , where he began singing classical music for radio. In , Jasraj married Madhura Shantaram , the daughter of film director V. Shantaram , whom he had first met in in Bombay. Jasraj was initiated into vocal music by his father, and later trained as a tabla accompanist under his elder brother, Pandit Pratap Narayan.

Jasraj began training as a vocalist at the age of 14, after renouncing tabla in reaction to how accompanists were treated at the time. In when he was 22 he performed his first stage concert as a vocalist in the court of King Tribhuvan Bir Bikram Shah of Nepal in Kathmandu. He initially trained as a classical vocalist with Pandit Maniram, and later with Jaiwant Singh Waghela, a vocalist and beenkar.

Although Jasraj belonged to the Mewati gharana, [ 28 ] a school of music known for its traditional performances of khayals , Jasraj had sung khayals with some flexibility, adding elements of lighter styles, including the thumri. Kalidas has noted, however, that this borrowing of elements across gharanas has now become more commonly accepted.