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Madurai Shanmukhavadivu Subbulakshmi (16 September 1916 – 11 December 2004) was an Carnatic singer from Madurai, Tamil Nadu. Exacting purists acknowledge M. S. Subbulakshmi as the leading exponent of classical and semi-classical songs in the Carnatic tradition of South India.

This composition is in raga Hindolam.

The Karnataka College of Percussion (KCP) is a music school in Bangalore, Karnataka, India, which is dedicated to the teaching of the Carnatic percussion and vocal music of South India. It was founded in approximately 1964 by the mridangam player T. A. S. Mani.

Violinist from Goa. Disciple of D. K. Datar, and Kishori Amonkar.

Trichur V. Ramachandran was born in Trichur, Cochin State in 1940. as a disciple of G. N. Balasubramaniam. Later he underwent training under M. L. Vasanthakumari.

Born in Bangalore, raised in Chennai, she is the sister of Shashank.

Girija Devi (born in Varanasi 8 May 1929 – 24 October 2017 in Kolkata) was an Indian classical singer of the Seniya and Banaras gharanas. Her father played the harmonium and taught music, and had Girija Devi take lessons in singing khyal and tappa from vocalist and sarangi player Sarju Prasad Misra starting at the age of five. She performed classical and light classical music and helped elevate the profile of thumri.

Begum Parveen Sultana (born 1950) is a Assamese Hindustani classical singer, representing the Patiala gharana. Her husband, Dilshad Khan was born Arabinda Dasgupta in 1941 in Kolkata. He was a disciple of Kirana gharana vocalist Faiyaz Ahmed Khan.

N. Ravikiran (born in Mysore 12 February 1967) is an Indian slide instrumentalist, vocalist, composer, and orator. A child prodigy, he is the son of gottuvadhyam player Chitravina Narasimhan.

His cylindrical white slide is made of Teflon.

This recording is an unusual (but natural) blend of classical dhrupad with Rabindrasangeet.

Thodur Madabusi Krishna (born 22 January 1976) is a Carnatic vocalist, writer, and activist. Krishna's parents ensured that he received exposure to the classical arts from a young age.

Debashish Bhattacharya was born into a musical family in Kolkata on 12 January 1963.

He designs his own instruments. The bodies are that of a guitar, but the rest is all his.

Sulochana Pattabhiraman ( ? - 2008) was a musician and musicologist. She had her basic training in music under R. V. Subramaniam, Kalyanakrishna Bhagavathar and Sattur Subramaniam, she later came under the tutelage of N. Balasubramanian, S. Kalyanaraman and Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer.

Daya Shankar is the son and disciple of shehnai master Anant Lal.

Mehdi Hassan Khan (18 July 1927 – 13 June 2012) was a Pakistani ghazal singer. He was born in a village named Luna, in present day Rajasthan. He showed an early inclination towards music, and received training from his family in the dhrupad style of Hindustani music, as well as Dadra, thumri and khayal. After the partition of India in 1947, his family migrated to Pakistan.