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Narasimhan Ravikiran was born on 12 February 1967 in Mysore. A child prodigy, he was able to identify about 325 ragas (melodic scales) and 175 talas (rhythmic cycles) of Carnatic music at the age of 2. He is the son of gottuvadhyam player Chitravina Narasimhan.

with A. Kanyakumari (violin), Mannargudi Easwaran (mridangam), and Nagaraja Rao (ghatam)

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

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

Reshma was born to a nomadic Banjara family in Rajasthan in 1947. The family relocated to Karachi during Partition. A local music producer discover her singing at the shrine of Lal Shahbaz Qalandar in Sindh when she was 12 years old, and she went on to have an illustrious career singing folk and Sufi songs. She died in 2013.

with Sivaraman on mridangam

Born on 23 July 1947 in Chennai, L. Subramaniam made his first public appearance at age 6. Went on to earn a Master's degree in music and teach South Indian music at Cal Arts. He completed medical training at Madras Medical College and registered as a medical practitioner before leaving for the U.S.

He is also the father of Gingger Shankar, Ambi Subramaniam, and Bindu Subramaniam, and a brother of L. Vaidyanathan and L. Shankar. His uncles include Ramnad Raghvan and Ramnad Krishnan.

With two mridangam artists: M.N. Chary & Dr. T. Ravi.

Javalis are sensuous in nature, as compared to devotional kritis.

Sharad Kumar was born to a family of musicians in Mirzapur, Uttar Pradesh around 1935.

with Bhawani Shankar on tabla

Nithyasree Mahadevan (born 25 August 1973) in Thiruvaiyaru, Tamil Nadu, was born to Lalitha Sivakumar and Iswaran Sivakumar. Her paternal grandmother is D. K. Pattammal, and her grand-uncle is D. K. Jayaraman, (prominent Carnatic vocalists). Her maternal grandfather was the mridangam maestro, Palghat Mani Iyer.

Vyasmurti Katti trained in harmonium under Ramacharya Bagewadi of Solapur. He is adept as a soloist as well as accompanist. Currently he is learning vocal music under the tutelage of Indudhar Nirody, a senior exponent of the Agra Gayaki.

Palghat Kollengode Viswanathan Narayanaswamy (15 November 1923 – 1 April 2002), often referred to as K. V. Narayanaswamy, was born in Palghat, in Kerala. In 1942 he became the disciple Ariyakudi Ramanuja Iyengar and remained until the master's death in 1967.

with Palghat Raghu on mridangam & V. V. Subramaniam on violin

Siblings Reena Chakraborty Shrivastava & Rajeeb Chakraborty were trained by their father Rabi Chakraborty.

"Bombay" Jayashri Ramnath was born in Kolkata in 1964 or 1965. She is a Carnatic vocalist, singer and musician, trained by Lalgudi Jayaraman and T. R. Balamani.

T. M. Krishna was born on 22 January 1976 in Chennai, T. M. Krishna is a vocalist, writer, activist, and author.

He was awarded with the Ramon Magsaysay Award for “his forceful commitment as artist and advocate to art’s power to heal India’s deep social divisions, breaking barriers of caste and class to unleash what music has to offer not just for some but for all”.

This is a soundtrack to their concert film

Gudalur Narayanaswamy Balasubramaniam (6 January 1910 – 1 May 1965), popularly known as GNB, was a Carnatic vocalist. He composed over 250 krithis, most in Telugu with a few in Sanskrit and Tamil. GNB also invented new ragas. He taught a number of students during his active years. Most famous among them are M. L. Vasanthakumari, Radha-Jayalakshmi duo, Tanjore S. Kalyanaraman, Trichur V. Ramachandran, T. R. Balu, T. S. Balasubramanian, and Ragini. GNB died rather young, at age 56.

Amal Jyoti "Pannalal" Ghosh (1911-1960) was born in Barisal, Bengal (currently Bangladesh). His initial training was by his father on sitar, and later under Allauddin Khan.

His brother Nikhil Ghosh is a tabla player, but the tabla player on this record was not identified.

World-renowned Pakistani musician (1948-1997), primarily a singer of Qawwali, the devotional music of the Sufis (a mystical tradition within Islam). Nusrat's family has an unbroken tradition of performing Qawwali for approximately 600 years. He helped introduce and popularize Qawwali internationally.

Musarrat Nazir Khawaja was born in 1940 in Lahore. She was an actor and singer. She got married and moved to Canada in 1965, giving up her musical career.