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R. Prasanna (better known as Guitar Prasanna), was born on 2 October 1970, and grew up in Chennai. He is a pioneer in performing Carnatic music on the electric guitar. He also plays jazz, progressive rock, and world fusion.

Mausumi Kundu is a semiclassical vocal teacher at Shriram Bharatiya Kala Kendra in Delhi.

Raman Kalyan, also known as V. K. Raman and as Flute Raman, studied under Dr. N. Ramani.

This is another example of rare instruments in Indian Classical Music that I did not have time to present last November. This recording was issued in 1975 but probably recorded much earlier. It features Manfred Junius on the surbahar (a larger, deeper version of the sitar), and Sulalit Sinha on the surashringar (similar to the sarod, but larger). I was not able to find a decent photo of Sulalit Sinha.

Manfred Junius - - - - - - - - - - - -- Sulalit Sinha

Avasarala Kanyakumari is a native of Vijayanagaram, Andhra Pradesh, and has lived in Chennai for more than 5 decades. The two accompanying violinists are Hemalatha and Hemamalini.

O.S. Thyagarajan was an ‘A-Top’ graded artist of the All India Radio and of Doordarshan, he gave a large number of concerts, and was considered one of the eminent artists of his generation.

This was originally released on cassette in 1994, and is the earliest recording of OST that I could locate.

O. S. Thyagarajan is the father of Aparna Balaji, a vocal teacher in the Boston area.

Uppalapu Srinivas (28 February 1969 – 19 September 2014) was a mandolin player in Carnatic classical music and composer. Because he was a child prodigy, he was sometimes called the Mozart of classical Indian music. Rudraraju Subbaraju (disciple of Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavathar) taught U. Srinivas by singing, and U. Srinivas developed his phenomenal style of playing entirely his own, since mandolin had never been played in the rigorous and difficult Carnatic style before.

Srinivas started out on the acoustic mandolin, but neither the size nor plucking required of the acoustic mandolin was suited for long, sustained notes. He then switched to the electric mandolin.

Hafizullah Khan (1946-2002) was the only son of Abdul Wahid Khan (1871-1949), co-founder of the Kirana gharana with his cousin Abdul Karim Khan (1872-1937). "Anaek Ranjini" is a raga created by Hafizullah Khan, combining multiple ragas. Recorded in May 2000.

Madras Lalitangi Vasanthakumari (popularly referred to as MLV) (3 July 1928 – 31 October 1990), was a contemporary of D.K. Pattammal and M.S. Subbulakshmi, and was a prime disciple of G.N. Balasubramaniam.

Bade Ghulam Ali Khan was born in 1902 in Kasur, Punjab Province (part of Pakistan since 1947). An influential vocalist in Hindustani music, he combined elements of dhrupad with Jaipur and Gwalior gharanas, into what would be known as the Patiala-Kasur gharana. He lived mainly in India after 1957, and died in Hyderabad in 1968.