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Srirangam Gopalaratnam (1939 Andhra Pradesh – 1993) was a child prodigy. She was a student of Dr. Sripad Pinakapani, and was known for both classical and playback singing. This was broadcast on AIR during the 1960's.

Qamruddin "Bismillah" Khan was born in 1916. His father was a court musician employed in the court of Maharaja Keshav Prasad Singh of Dumraon Estate in Bihar. His two grandfathers Ustad Salar Hussain Khan and Rasool Bux Khan were also musicians in the Dumraon palace. The shehnai had long been used during marriages, processions and in temples, but Bismillah Khan is credited with elevating the status of the shehani, and bringing it to the classical concert stage.

This raga is also known as Hamsakankini. It is not a popular raga.

Dr. Natesan Ramani (15 October 1934 in Tiruvarur – 9 October 2015), commonly known as N. Ramani or N. Flute Ramani, was born into a family of Carnatic flautists.

N. Ramani first learnt music from his grandfather, Aazhiyur Narayanaswami Iyer, a flute artist and singer. Ramani performed his first concert at the age of 8. The turning point in Ramani's career was when he became a disciple of his maternal uncle and eminent flautist, T. R. Mahalingam (Mali).

Kaivalya Kumar Gurav is a third generation singer from the Kirana Gharana. He is another one of the many musicians from the Belgaum region of Karnataka.

Lakshminarayana Shankar (born 26 April 1950), better known as L. Shankar, was born in Chennai and raised in Sri Lanka. Shankar founded a violin trio with his brothers, L. Vaidyanathan and L. Subramaniam, that performed throughout India. While attending college at Wesleyan University in 1969, he met jazz musician John McLaughlin, with whom he founded "Shakti" in 1975, one of the early groups fusing Eastern and Western musical traditions. Shankar invented this double neck 10-string electric violin.

This Pallavi features a 6 3/4 beat rhythm cycle. I found it easier to follow if I considered it as a 27 beat cycle (4+4+4+4+4+4+3).

Jugalbandi (duet) featuring Himangshu Biswas (bansuri) and Dulal Roy (jalatarang).

S. Sowmya (born 16 April 1969) is a Carnatic music singer. She learnt music initially from her father Dr. Srinivasan, and later from Dr. S. Ramanathan and Smt.T. Muktha.

S. Sowmya earned a Ph.D. (Univ. of Madras, 2012) for the dissertation "A study of the effect of temperature variations on the pitch of a double-headed drum (mridanga)". She also earned a M.Sc. in Chemistry from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras, 1992.

Sowmya made her concert debut at the age of 11. In 1986, she had her first performance at the Madras Music Academy, aged just 17 and thereafter performed there every year for 33 years.

In 1998, Sowmya co-founded Carnatica - an institution dedicated to classical music & dance instruction, archival, talent search and other related activities.

Shamsuddin Faridi Desai (1936-2011) was a rudra veena (bīn) master musician from Bhavnagar district of Saurashtra in Gujarat state, India. He was taught by his father, Muhammad Khan Faridi, who came from the Gauharbani Gharana. Shamsuddin Faridi Desai belonged to Islamic Qadri Sufism and firmly considered music to be a form of prayer. Very few recordings were made, and most of his performances were held in dargahs (tombs of Sufi saints).

D. K. Jayaraman (popularly known as DKJ) (1928-1991), leant music from his elder sister, D. K. Pattammal. he furthered his musical skills under many known masters in the field, including Muthiah Bhagavathar and Papanasam Sivan.

Mahuya Bandyopadhyay is also know as Dr. Banerjee, math professor at IIT Kanpur.