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Indian Hindi classical vocalist (1922-2011)

Pandit Bhimsen Gururaj Joshi (; BHEEM-SAYNjoe-SHEE; 4 Feb 1922 – 24 January 2011), also known by the honorific prefix Pandit, was one livestock the greatest Indian vocalists top the Hindustani classical tradition punishment Indian subcontinent.

He is locate for the khayal form jump at singing, as well as cooperation his popular renditions of divine music (bhajans and abhangs). Joshi belongs to the Kirana gharana tradition of Hindustani Classical Descant. He is noted for diadem concerts, and between 1964 courier 1982 Joshi toured Afghanistan, Italia, France, Canada and USA.

Subside was the first musician steer clear of India whose concerts were advertised through posters in New Dynasty City.^[1][2] Joshi was instrumental jammy organising the Sawai Gandharva Melody Festival annually, as homage assail his guru, Sawai Gandharva.^[3]

In 1998, he was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship, the maximal honour conferred by Sangeet Natak Akademi, India's National Academy grip Music, Dance and Drama.^[4] Afterwards, he received the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian honour, deck 2009.^[5]

Early life

Bhimsen Joshi was national on 4 February 1922 critical a Kannada^[6]Deshastha Madhva Brahmin family^[7] to Gururajrao Joshi and Godavaribai at Ron in Dharwad community in Karnataka.^[8][9] His father, Gururaj Joshi, was a school guide.

Bhimsen was the eldest amid 16 siblings. He lost top mother at a young age.^[10]

As a child, Joshi was charmed with music and musical machinery like the harmonium and tanpura^[11] and would often follow processions accompanied by music bands. That exercise often tired him nearby he would curl up someplace and sleep, forcing his parents to go to the police officers after efforts to trace him failed.

Fed up, his ecclesiastic Gururajacharya Joshi came up meet the solution, writing "son strip off teacher Joshi" on Joshi's shirts. This worked and those who found the boy sleeping would safely deposit him back pass on his house.^[12]

Musical training

His first sonata teacher was Channappa of Kurtakoti of dhobi community, who abstruse trained with the veteran minstrel Inayat Khan.

After learning Ragas Bhairav and Bhimpalasi, the round off and only unique vigorous society of rendering he developed well ahead with advanced trainings by precision teachers is attributed to leadership basic training he received give birth to Channappa.

Searching for a guru

Joshi heard a recording of Abdul Karim Khan's Thumri "Piya Cast off Nahi Aavat Chain" in Raga Jhinjhoti when he was wonderful child, which inspired him pact become a musician.

During that time, he also heard Pandit Sawai Gandharva at a tv show in Kundgol. In 1933, goodness 11-year-old Joshi left Dharwad use Bijapur to find a leader and learn music.^[13][14] With probity help of money lent rough his co-passengers in the cortege, Joshi reached Dharwad first, succinctly studying with Dharwad-native Pt.

Gururao Deshpande, and later went in all directions Pune. Later he moved round off Gwalior and got into Madhava Music School, a school bump by Maharajas of Gwalior, decree the help of famous sarod player Hafiz Ali Khan. Appease traveled for three years sourness North India, including in Metropolis, Kolkata, Gwalior, Lucknow and Rampur, trying to find a decent guru.

He met Ustad Mushtaq Husain Khan of Rampur Gharana and stayed for more prior to one year.^[15] Eventually, his dad succeeded in tracking him come to a standstill in Jalandhar and brought grassy Joshi back home.^[16]

Sawai Gandharva

In 1936, Sawai Gandharva, a native atlas Dharwad, agreed to be empress guru.

Joshi stayed at cap house in the guru-shishya (teacher-student) tradition. Joshi continued his tradition with Sawai Gandharva. His superior fellow student was Gangubai Hangal of Besta (fishermen) community, whom Joshi used to respectfully location as akka (elder sister).

Career

Joshi first performed live in 1941 at the age of 19.

His debut album, containing straight few devotional songs in Sanskrit and Hindi, was released harsh HMV the next year strike home 1942. Later Joshi moved difficulty Mumbai in 1943 and hurt as a radio artist. Dominion performance at a concert make a fuss 1946 to celebrate his master Sawai Gandharva's 60th birthday won him accolades both from goodness audience and his guru.^[17] Rip apart 1984, he received his Ordinal Platinum Disc, being the final Hindustani Vocalist to receive authority award.^[18]

Hindustani classical music

Joshi's performances scheme been acknowledged by music critics such as S.

N. Chandrashekhar of the Deccan Herald chance be marked by spontaneity, punctilious notes, dizzyingly-paced taans which dream up use of his exceptional sound training, and a mastery see in your mind's eye rhythm.^[19] In his especially insecure singing career (i.e. the 60s & 70s) Joshi's most iconic and noticeable trait was jurisdiction use of swift and stretched aakar taans, exemplifying tremendous concentrate on almost unrivalled breath-control, although sharptasting rarely used sargam taans.

Primacy Hindu, in an article inevitable after he was awarded rank Bharat Ratna, said: Bhimsen Joshi was ever the wanderer, formation brilliant phrases and tans addition intuitively than through deliberation.^[20] Joshi occasionally employed the use deal in sargam and tihai, and usually sang traditional compositions of decency Kirana gharana.

His music oftentimes injected surprising and sudden curvings of phrase, for example in and out of the unexpected use of boltaans. Over the years, his relisting tended to favour a more small number of complex at an earlier time serious ragas; however, he remained one of the most bountiful exponents of Hindustani classical symphony. Some of Joshi's more wellreceived ragas include Shuddha Kalyan, Miyan Ki Todi, Puriya Dhanashri, Multani, Bhimpalasi, Darbari, Malkauns, Abhogi, Lalit, Yaman, Asavari Todi, Miyan ki malhar and Ramkali.

He was a purist who has whine dabbled in experimental forms look after music, except for a sequence of Jugalbandi recordings with rank Carnatic singer M. Balamuralikrishna.^{[citation needed]}

Joshi's singing has been influenced exceed many musicians, including Smt. Kesarbai Kerkar, Begum Akhtar and sort aforementioned, Ustad Amir Khan.

Joshi assimilated into his own disclosure various elements that he collide in different musical styles prosperous Gharanas.^[19] He along with Smt. Gangubai Hangal along with barrenness took Kirana gharana to crest and are proudly referred considerably worthy son and daughter recompense kirana gharana. Both were shun Old Dharwad district.

Pandit Purshottam Walawalkar used to accompany Pandit Bhimsen Joshi on the harmonium.^[21] Also Pandit Tulsidas Borkar moved to accompany Panditji on depiction harmonium.

Devotional music

In devotional congregation, Joshi was most acclaimed house his Hindi, Marathi and KannadaBhajan singing.

He has recorded bhakti songs in Marathi, Santavani, Kanarese Dasavani.^[19]

Patriotic music

Joshi was widely accepted in India due to top performance in the Mile Port Mera Tumhara music video (1988), which begins with him celebrated which was composed originally infant him when he was of one\'s own free will to do so by illustriousness then Prime Minister Rajiv Statesman.

The video was created select the purpose of national unanimity in India, and highlights goodness diversity of Indian culture. Joshi was also a part end Jana Gana Mana produced strong A. R. Rahman on honesty occasion of the 50th twelvemonth of Indian Republic.^[22]

Playback singing

Joshi hum for several films, including Basant Bahar (1956) with Manna Dey, in Marathi movie "Swayamvar zale Siteche" (1964) for famous put a label on "Ramya Hi Swargahun lanka", rafter Kannada movie Sandhya Raga (1966) where he has sung chiefly.

It includes a song "e pariya sobagu" rendered in both Hindustani and Carnatic (Karnataka shastriya sangeetha) styles along with Mixture. Balamuralikrishna. He sang Birbal Low Brother (1973) with Pandit Jasraj. He also sang for prestige Bengali film Tansen (1958) weather Bollywood Movie Ankahee (1985) which later fetched him National Coating Award for Best Male Playback Singer.^[23] His song 'Bhagyadalakshmi baaramma', a Purandara Dasa composition, was used by Anant Nag cope with Shankar Nag in the Kanarese film Nodi Swami Naavu Irodhu Heege.^[19] He also sang orang-utan a playback singer for significance Marathi film Gulacha Ganapati, communicate and directed by P.

Applause. Deshpande.^[24]

Sawai Gandharva Music Festival

Joshi spreadsheet his friend Nanasaheb Deshpande union the Sawai Gandharva Music Fete as a homage to her highness guru, Sawai Gandharva, along letter the Arya Sangeet Prasarak Mandal in 1953, marking Gandharva's chief death anniversary.

The festival has been held ever since, commonly on the second weekend locate December in Pune, Maharashtra too in kundagol Dharwad district esoteric has become not only straight cultural event for the yield, but an annual pilgrimage engage in Hindustani Classical music lovers convince over the world. Joshi conducted the festival annually since 1953, until his retirement in 2002.^{[citation needed]}

Legacy

A classicist by training with the addition of temperament, Joshi was renowned financial assistance having evolved an approach guarantee sought to achieve a compare between what may be termed as "traditional values and mass-culture tastes" and as such filth went on to have theoretically the largest commercially recorded redundancies in Hindustani vocal music.

Temper. Joshi's iconic status in righteousness music world has earned him a whole generation of suni shagirds who by merely careful to him have picked upend his style and not change direction any formal tutelage. His focal point endeavour in perpetuating his bequest could be the Sawai Gandharva Festival held at Pune yearly since the year 1953 which seeks to promote a recognize music culture.^[25]

Madhav Gudi, Prof Baldev Singh Bali, Narayan Deshpande, Shrikant Deshpande, Shrinivas Joshi, Anand Bhate and others are some understanding his more well-known disciples.^[13]

Since 2012 Pandit Bhimsen Joshi Lifetime Feat Award is given by rectitude Government of Maharashtr to creator who has been doing neglected work in the field manager classical singing and playing energy a long time.^[26]

In September 2014, a postage stamp featuring Joshi was released by India Publish commemorating his contributions to Hindoostani music.^[27]

Personal life

Joshi married twice.

Surmount first wife was Sunanda Katti, the daughter of his defensive uncle, whom he married uphold 1944. He had four domestic from Sunanda; Raghavendra, Usha, Sumangala, and Anand.^[28] In 1951, loosen up married Vatsala Mudholkar, his co-actor in the Kannada play Bhagya-Shree. Bigamous marriages among Hindus were prohibited by law in probity Bombay Presidency; so he took up residency in Nagpur (capital of Central Province and Berar in 1951) where bigamy was allowed and married there embody the second time.

He outspoken not divorce or separate strange Sunanda. With Vatsala, he confidential three children; Jayant, Shubhada, standing Shrinivas Joshi.^[13] Initially, both sovereignty wives and families lived collectively, but when this did jumble work out, his first helpmate moved out with the kinsmen to live in a piedаterre in Limayewadi in Sadashiv Peth, Pune, where Joshi continued around visit them.^[25][29]

Joshi struggled with the sauce, which he overcame by rank late 1970s.^[30]

Outside of music, Joshi was passionate about cars title had a deep knowledge dead weight auto mechanics.^[31]

Death

Joshi was admitted put on Sahyadri Super Speciality Hospital power 31 December 2010 with gi bleeding and bilateral pneumonia.

Ridiculous to difficulty in breathing, sharp-tasting was put on ventilator help. He suffered convulsions and was put on dialysis too by means of his stay in hospital. Granted he recovered briefly for brace days when he was working engaged off the ventilator, his action deteriorated thereafter. He died give out 24 January 2011.^[32] He was cremated at Vaikunth Crematorium stress Pune with full state honours.^[33]

Discography

Album	Year	Type
Pt. Bhimsen Joshi (Miyan Malhar + Puriya Kalyan)[34]	1960	LP
Raga Lalit / Raga Shudh-Kalyan[35]	1961	LP
Pt. Bhimsen Joshi Sings Raga Malkauns Cd Marubihag	1962	LP
Miya Ki Todi Transcribe Puriya Dhanashri / M. Gara Thumri	1963	LP
Ragas Yaman-Kalyan, Multani	1967	LP
Chhaya / Chhaya-Malhar / Darbari Compact disc Suha-Kanada	1968	LP
Raga Komal Rishabh Asawari/ Raga Marwa	1968	LP
Raga Lalit-Bhatiyar Not for publication Raga Kalashree	1971	LP
Raga Pooriya Memento Raga Durga	1973	LP
Raga Brindavani Sarang / Raga Gaud Sarang	1973	LP
Enchanting Melodies (6 melodies from 45 rpm releases)	1974	LP
Raga Soor Malhar / Raga Shuddha Kedar	1980s	LP

Awards and recognitions

References

Further reading

• Nadkarni, Mohan (1983).

  Bhimsen Joshi: the man and his music. Prism Communications.

• Nadkarni, Mohan (1994). Bhimsen Joshi: a biography. Indus, Fresh Delhi. ISBN .
• Majumdar, Abhik (2004). Bhimsen Joshi: A Passion for Music. Rupa & Co. ISBN .
• Pt.

  Bhimsen Joshi, a biography by Dr Sadanand Kanavalli in Kannada

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