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Madurai Thirumalai Nambi Seshagopalan was born in 1948. Although T. N. Seshagopalan uses 'Madurai' in front of his name, he was actually born in Nagapattinam, Tamil Nadu.

Sarangi virtuoso Sabri Khan (1927-2015) was born in Moradabad, U.P. Both sides of his family had distinguished musicians. He belonged to the Sainia gharana

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accompanied by sons Kamal Sabri (also sarangi) and Sarvar Sabri (tabla)

Gayathri Venkataraghavan received advanced training from A. Sundareshan, Ramnad Krishnan, and Shivasubramanya Iyer, and later with P. S. Narayanaswamy.

With Mysore Srikanth (violin), and B. Sivaraman (mridangam)

Singing in the Sham Chaurasia gharana, Nazakat Ali Khan (1928-1984) and Salamat Ali Khan (1934-2001) had their debut performance on All India Radio, Delhi in 1942, when Salamat was only 8. Their father is vocalist Vilayat Ali Khan. They were from Hoshiarpur, Punjab, and migrated to Lahore after the partition of India.

The Pulluvan are a community of traveling bards in Kerala.

performed by Takshagan & Jannardhanan

On this date in 1956, the States of Kerala and Andhra Pradesh were formed in India

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

with Akkarai Subhalakshmi on violin, Patri Satish Kumar on mridangam, and S. Karthick on ghatam.

Yeshwantrai Purohit was born in Bhavnagar Gujarat in 1916. He leant from Shankarrao Vyas, Narayan Moreshwar Khare, Omkarnath Thakur and Balkrishnaboa Kapileshwari of the Kirana gharana. He passed away in 1964 at age 47 before cutting a gramophone disc. The recordings on this record were made by his admirers during his performances.

On this date in 1956, the Indian State of Andhra Pradesh was formally created. This is a folk song in Telugu from Andhra Pradesh (Telangana).

Emani Sankara Sastry (1922 – 1987), was a renowned veena player. Born in Draksharama, Andhra Pradesh, he came from a family of celebrated classical musicians. His father was Vainika Emani Achyutarama Sastri.

with Trichi Sankaran (mridangam), and TH Vinayakram (ghatam)

Dr. M Balamuralikrishna (1930 – 2016) was born in Mangalampalli, Andhra Pradesh. He was a Carnatic vocalist, musician, multi-instrumentalist, playback singer, composer, and character actor. He leant from Parupalli Ramakrishnayya Pantulu, who gave him the prefix "Bala" (lit. child) to the young Balamuralikrishna. Prior to this, his name was Muralikrishna.

violin: Mysore Nagarajan, tabla: Zakir Hussain, ghatam: T.H. Vinayakram

Allauddin Khan, was born circa 1862 (some speculate 1882) in what is now Bangladesh, and died on 6 September 1972. He was an Indian sarod player and multi-instrumentalist, composer and one of the most notable music teachers of the 20th century in Indian classical music. He became court musician for the Maharaja of Maihar, where he founded the Maihar gharana. His famous legacy: son Ali Akbar Khan, daughter Annapurna Devi, students Ravi Shankar, Nikhil Banerjee, Vasant Rai, Sharan Rani, Pannalal Ghosh, and many others.

Originally broadcast on All India Radio on 6 March 1959.

Arati Ankalikar-Tikekar was born in 1963 in Bijapur, Karnataka. She was trained in the Agra, Gwalior and Jaipur-Atrauli gharana styles of Hindustani music. She also does playback singing for Marathi, Konkani and Hindi films. Teachers included Vasantrao Kulkarni, Kishori Amonkar, and Dinkar Kaikini.