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Emani Sankara Sastry (23 September 1922 – 1987), was a renowned veena player.

Soolamangalam Jayalakshmi (1937-2017) and Rajalakshmi (1940-1992) were Carnatic music sister-pair vocalists and musicians known for their devotional songs in Tamil.

Trained in sarod by his father Alok Lahiri.

Tabla by Subrata Bhattacharya.

Dr. Natesan Ramani (15 October 1934 – 9 October 2015), commonly known as N. Ramani or N. Flute Ramani, was an Indian Carnatic flautist. Ramani was born into a family of flautists, learning first from his grandfather, Aazhiyur Narayanaswami Iyer. He later became a disciple of his maternal uncle and eminent flautist, T. R. Mahalingam.

with A. Kanyakumari (violin), T.H. Vinayakram (ghatam), Sri Mushnam Raja Rao (mridangam) and Sri Rangam Kannan (morsing)

Gangubai Hangal was born in Hangal (now in Karnataka) in 1913. Her mother was a Carnatic singer. The family moved to Hubli in 1928 so that Gangubai could study Hindustani music. Her main guru was Sawai Gandharva of the Kirana gharana. She died in 2009, aged 96.

Vocal support: Krishna Hangal, tabla: Sheshgiri Hangel; harmonium: Appa Jalgaonkar.

Gangubai Hangal was another famous musician from the Dharwad region of Karnataka. (It's astounding how many! See the Wikipedia article:) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_from_...

Kadri Gopalnath (1949 – 2019) pioneered the saxophone in Carnatic music. One of his teachers was vocalist and mridangam player T. V. Gopalakrishnan. Kadri Gopalnath made some adaptations to the saxophone to permit playing Carnatic music.

with A. Kanyakumari (violin) , Thiruvarur Bhaktavatsalam (mridangam), V. Suresh (ghatam), Rajasekar (morsing)

Born into a family of musicians originally from Muradabad, Murad Ali is sixth generation sarangi player. He was trained by his grandfather Siddique Ahmad Khan, and his father Ghulam Sabir Khan.

tabla by Rachid Mustafa Thirakwa

Semmangudi Radhakrishna Srinivasa Iyer (1908 – 2003) was a Carnatic vocalist. Among his many teachers was a musical apprenticeship with Maharajapuram Viswanatha Iyer. Prominent disciples include M. S. Subbulakshmi and her stepdaughter Radha Viswanathan, T. M. Thiagarajan, and violinist T. N. Krishnan.

Singh Bandhu is an Indian musical duo composed of brothers Tejpal Singh (b 1937) and Surinder Singh (b 1940), exponents of Hindustani classical music and Sikh music (shabad kirtan). They earned their Masters in music from Allahabad University, and studied under Amir Khan of the Indore Gharana.

sarangi: Sultan Khan; harmonium: Anant V. Bedekar; tabla: D.K. Aitewadekar

Cousins Radha (born 1932) and Jayalakshmi (1932 -2014), popularly known as Radha Jayalakshmi, were early vocalists in the duo singing trend in Carnatic music which started in the 1950s. They were students of G. N. Balasubramaniam.

with MS Anantaraman (violin), Palghat Krishnamani (mridangam), RS Krishnamurthi Rao (ghatam)

Singing : Jagavasutthihudella" & "Ikonamma Swami" in Shankarabharanam.

"Kajari" is a 'swinging song' popular in the rainy season.

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

Accompanied by R. Charumati (vocal support), A. Kanyakumari (violin), Tanjore S. Krishnamurthy Rao (mridangam) and Palghat Sundaram (ghatam).

Madurai Thirumalai Nambi Seshagopalan was born, 5 September 1948.

Although T. N. Seshagopalan uses 'Madurai' in front of his name, he was

actually born in Nagapattinam, Tamil Nadu.

Accompanied by Thiruparkadal Veeraraghvan (violin), Thiruvarur Bhakthavatsalam (mridangam), and E. M. Subramanyam (ghatam)

Ali Ahmed Hussain Khan (1939 – 2016) was from Kolkata.

with Hirak Mukherjee on tabla