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Born in Chennai in 1966, she is the daughter and disciple of Lalgudi G. Jayaraman.

with Patri Satish Kumar (mridangam), K.V. Gopalakrishnan (kanjira)

Born in Mumbai in 1972, he is the son and disciple of Shivkumar Sharma (1938-2022). The family is from the Dogra community of Jammu & Kashmir. The santoor (a variant of the Iranian santur) is a traditional instrument of Jammu & Kashmir, dating to ancient times. Its old name is "Shatha Tantri Veena" (100 string veena). It was typically an accompaniment to folk music, but Shivkumar Sharma is responsible for elevating the instrument to classical status.

with Shafat Ahmed Khan (tabla), Bhawani Shankar (folk percussion: hudka and ghungroo)

"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. She has also received training in Hindustani music from K. Mahavir Jaipurwale and Ajay Pohankar. Plus she studied bharatanatyam dance and learned to play the veena.

with Vittal Ramamurthy (violin), Neyveli R. Narayanan (mridangam), A.S. Shankar (ghatam)

Chitti Babu (1936 – 1996) was born Hanumanlu Challapally in Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh. Chitti Babu was his nickname at home, and it became his stage name. He was a prime disciple of Dr. Emani Sankara Sastry.

with V. Kamalakar Rao (mridangam), and K.M. Vaidyanathan (ghatam)

Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavatar a.k.a. Vaidyanatha Iyer (1896 – 1974) was a Carnatic music singer from Palakkad (state of Kerala).

accompanying artists were not identified on the record

Channulal Mishra (3 August 1936 - 2 October 2025) was born in Hariharpur, Uttar Pradesh, and had training in the Benares, Kirana and Patiala gharanas. He mainly sung light classical.

with Bharat Bhushan Goswami (sarangi), Yamin Khan (harmonium), Nahul Mishra (tabla)

U. Srinivas (1969 - 2014) was a child prodigy. He was the first musician to use the electric mandolin in Carnatic music. He modified the electric western instrument, using five single strings instead of the traditional four doubled strings to suit the Carnatic pitch, raga system, and especially "gamakas", or nuanced oscillations. He developing a phenomenal style of playing entirely his own, and astonishingly, on an instrument that had never been played in the rigorous and difficult Carnatic style before.

U. Rajesh on 2nd mandolin; K. Murugaboopathi on mridangam; E.M. Subramaniam on ghatam.

Krishnan Nair Shantakumari Chithra was born in 1963 at Trivandrum, in Kerala. She is known as the "Nightingale of South India" . Famous primarily for her prolific work as a playback singer in films, she also studied at the University of Kerala, and learnt Carnatic music under K. Omanakutty.

supporting musicians not identified.

He had classical training under many, including Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer and Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavatar.

supporting musicians not identified.

Begum Parveen Sultana (born 1950) is a Assamese Hindustani classical singer, representing the Patiala gharana. Her husband and guru is Dilshad Khan, born in 1941 in Kolkata.

with Abhijit Banerjee (tabla) and Shantaram Jadhav (harmonium).

Khyal : "Sajani Jaye Base Kawana Nagarwa" in uncommon raga "Amba Manohari". As far as I can find, Parween Sultana is the only one ever to perform it (under that name at least). The CD liner notes say this is a raga of Carnatic origin.

One website claims it is also called Monomanjari, popularized by Nikhil Banerjee.

Listener "ram" identifies this as Carnatic raga Mand

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.

He is credited with elevating the status of the shehani, and bringing it to the classical concert stage.

Maharajapuram Santhanam (1928-1992) followed in his father's footsteps. Besides studying with his father, he was also a disciple of Melattur Sama Dikshitar. He and several other family members died in an automobile collision in Kooteripattu in 1992. His sons and his primary disciple Dr. R. Ganesh are now carrying on his musical tradition.

violin: Subramaniam

mridangam: Vellore Ramabhadran

ghatam: Vinayak Ram

Firoza Begum was born in Bengal in 1930, and died in Dhaka in 2014. She met Bangladeshi national poet Kazi Nazrul Islam at the age of 10 and came his student. She sings "Nazrul Geeti", songs of Kazi Nazrul Islam (1899-1976). Nazrul Geeti is in the same realm as Rabindrasangeet.

Padmini Rao learnt sitar from Pramila Dagar, and vocal training from Zia Mohiuddin Dagar, and was also a student of Dr. Prabha Atre (Kirana gharana).

with Ramdas Palsule (tabla), Suyog Kundalkar (harmonium)