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Cousins Radha (1932 - 2025) 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.

Lakshmi Shankar (1926-2013) was a famous Hindustani vocalist, but many do not know she is South Indian, she was born Lakshmi Sastri. She started as a dancer, and was part of Uday Shankar’s world touring dance troupe. (Uday Shankar was Ravi Shankar’s elder brother.) But due to an illness Lakshmi Shankar had to give dancing up, and concentrated on singing, but chose Hindustani music. She married Ravi and Uday's brother Rajendra Shankar.

with Swapan Chowdhury (tabla) & Ramesh Mishra (sarangi)

"Paga Ghungaroo Baandh Mira Nachee"

Born in 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.

with Karaikudi Krishnamurthy (mridangam), Anindo Chartterjee (tabla), T.H. Subhashchandran (ghatam & konnakol)

Ustad Fateh Ali Khan (1935 – 2017) was among the foremost Khyal vocalists in Pakistan, and a leading exponent of the Patiala Gharana tradition of music. He was the younger of the legendary singing duo Amanat Ali and Fateh Ali, who enjoyed immense prestige and success across the subcontinent and beyond until the sudden and unexpected death of Ustad Amanat Ali Khan 1974.

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Tabla: Khalifa Akhtar Hussain. Sarangi: Alla Rakha Khan. Harmonium: Muhammad Aslam.

Dr. Bhavani Prakash is a physician by profession and musician by passion. She is an "A" Grade artist of All India Radio, and is equally versatile on vocal, veena and venu.

with Radhika Mani (violin) and Ramesh Ramachandran (mridangam)

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

with Mysore M. Nagaraj (violin), Anoor Ananthakrishna (mridangam), M. A. Krishnamoorthy (ghatam), S. V. Balakrishna (morsing)

Madurai Mani Iyer (1912 – 1968) was a disciple at the Shri Thyagaraja Sangeetha Vidyalayam, a music school at Madurai, founded by Harikesanallur Muthiah Bhagavatar.

with T. N. Krishnan (violin), and Vellore Ramabhadran (mridangam)

Sarod maestro Amjad Ali Khan was born in Gwalior in 1945. He is the son and disciple of court musical Hafiz Ali Khan.

Bapukauns is a raga created in 1994 for the 125th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, combining Bhimpalasi and Malkauns.

Koduvayur Sivarama Iyer Narayanaswamy (1914-1999) was a veena player in the Thanjavur style, which emphasizes nuances and subtleties over rhythmic based acrobatics. He is supported by Narayana Menon (also on veena), and Palghat Raghu (mridangam).

with Kandadevi Alagiriswamy (violin) and Guruvayur Dorai (mridangam)

this is in Raga Pantuvarali

with M. S. Anantharaman (violin), Palghat Krishnamani (mridangam), R. S. Krishnamoorthi Rao (ghatam

Accompanied by M.S. Anantharaman (violin), Guruvayur Dorai (mridangam) and Palghat Sundaram (ghatam)

Ramesh Mishra was born in Varanasi in 1948, and died in 2017 in New York City. He comes from a family of sarangi players and studied from an early age from a number of his older relatives. He was a disciple of Ravi Shankar. Accompanied by Polash Gomes on tabla.

Ajoy Chakrabarty (born in Kolkata in 1952) is a Hindustani classical vocalist, composer, lyricist and an exponent of the Patiala-Kasur gharana. His father, Ajit Chakrabarty, was his first Guru. He then studied with Pannalal Samanta, Kanaidas Bairagi and Jnan Prakash Ghosh. Besides that, he had learnt from Latafat Hussain Khan, Nibruttibua Sarnaik, Hirabai Barodekar and in Carnatic styles from Dr. M. Balamuralikrishna.

With Samar Saha on tabla. Jyoti Goho on harmonium.

He joined the ITC Sangeet Research Academy in 1978