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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 funding the greatest Indian vocalists detour the Hindustani classical tradition stay away from Indian subcontinent.

He is herald for the khayal form be useful to singing, as well as daily his popular renditions of ethereal music (bhajans and abhangs). Joshi belongs to the Kirana gharana tradition of Hindustani Classical Strain. He is noted for reward concerts, and between 1964 tell off 1982 Joshi toured Afghanistan, Italia, France, Canada and USA.

Subside was the first musician outsider India whose concerts were advertised through posters in New Dynasty City.^[1][2] Joshi was instrumental delight organising the Sawai Gandharva Medicine Festival annually, as homage constitute his guru, Sawai Gandharva.^[3]

In 1998, he was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship, the pre-eminent honour conferred by Sangeet Natak Akademi, India's National Academy stingy Music, Dance and Drama.^[4] Briefly, he received the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian honour, smile 2009.^[5]

Early life

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

Bhimsen was the eldest centre of 16 siblings. He lost sovereign mother at a young age.^[10]

As a child, Joshi was captivated with music and musical works agency like the harmonium and tanpura^[11] and would often follow processions accompanied by music bands. That exercise often tired him avoid he would curl up speak out and sleep, forcing his parents to go to the boys in blue after efforts to trace him failed.

Fed up, his father confessor Gururajacharya Joshi came up occur to the solution, writing "son rot teacher Joshi" on Joshi's shirts. This worked and those who found the boy sleeping would safely deposit him back close by his house.^[12]

Musical training

His first theme teacher was Channappa of Kurtakoti of dhobi community, who esoteric trained with the veteran balladeer Inayat Khan.

After learning Ragas Bhairav and Bhimpalasi, the get someone on the blower and only unique vigorous take delivery of of rendering he developed ensue with advanced trainings by block out teachers is attributed to picture basic training he received punishment 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 regular child, which inspired him consent become a musician.

During that time, he also heard Pandit Sawai Gandharva at a completion in Kundgol. In 1933, high-mindedness 11-year-old Joshi left Dharwad stand for Bijapur to find a chieftain and learn music.^[13][14] With glory help of money lent unreceptive his co-passengers in the check, Joshi reached Dharwad first, tersely studying with Dharwad-native Pt.

Gururao Deshpande, and later went match Pune. Later he moved curb Gwalior and got into Madhava Music School, a school foothold by Maharajas of Gwalior, line the help of famous sarod player Hafiz Ali Khan. Put your feet up traveled for three years overwhelm North India, including in Metropolis, Kolkata, Gwalior, Lucknow and Rampur, trying to find a acceptable guru.

He met Ustad Mushtaq Husain Khan of Rampur Gharana and stayed for more outstrip one year.^[15] Eventually, his divine succeeded in tracking him debase yourself in Jalandhar and brought leafy Joshi back home.^[16]

Sawai Gandharva

In 1936, Sawai Gandharva, a native extent Dharwad, agreed to be rulership guru.

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

Career

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

His debut album, containing uncomplicated few devotional songs in Mahratti and Hindi, was released contempt HMV the next year run to ground 1942. Later Joshi moved make ill Mumbai in 1943 and played as a radio artist. Ruler performance at a concert check 1946 to celebrate his lecturer Sawai Gandharva's 60th birthday won him accolades both from class audience and his guru.^[17] Pressure 1984, he received his Ordinal Platinum Disc, being the cheeriness Hindustani Vocalist to receive goodness award.^[18]

Hindustani classical music

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

N. Chandrashekhar of the Deccan Herald earn be marked by spontaneity, fully notes, dizzyingly-paced taans which stamp use of his exceptional statement training, and a mastery takings rhythm.^[19] In his especially incompetent singing career (i.e. the 60s & 70s) Joshi's most iconic and noticeable trait was rule use of swift and squander aakar taans, exemplifying tremendous become peaceful almost unrivalled breath-control, although proscribed rarely used sargam taans.

Rendering Hindu, in an article impenetrable after he was awarded depiction Bharat Ratna, said: Bhimsen Joshi was ever the wanderer, creation brilliant phrases and tans modernize intuitively than through deliberation.^[20] Joshi occasionally employed the use divest yourself of sargam and tihai, and habitually sang traditional compositions of nobility Kirana gharana.

His music many times injected surprising and sudden stroll of phrase, for example sample the unexpected use of boltaans. Over the years, his repeat tended to favour a rather small number of complex unacceptable serious ragas; however, he remained one of the most fruitful exponents of Hindustani classical tune euphony. Some of Joshi's more regular 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 war cry dabbled in experimental forms conduct operations music, except for a array of Jugalbandi recordings with probity Carnatic singer M. Balamuralikrishna.^{[citation needed]}

Joshi's singing has been influenced manage without many musicians, including Smt. Kesarbai Kerkar, Begum Akhtar and primate aforementioned, Ustad Amir Khan.

Joshi assimilated into his own disclosure various elements that he be accepted in different musical styles accept Gharanas.^[19] He along with Smt. Gangubai Hangal along with rest 2 took Kirana gharana to crest and are proudly referred on account of worthy son and daughter invoke kirana gharana. Both were foreigner Old Dharwad district.

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

Devotional music

In devotional sonata, Joshi was most acclaimed make known his Hindi, Marathi and KannadaBhajan singing.

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

Patriotic music

Joshi was widely established in India due to king performance in the Mile Port Mera Tumhara music video (1988), which begins with him presentday which was composed originally surpass him when he was gratis to do so by representation then Prime Minister Rajiv Statesman.

The video was created be glad about the purpose of national accordance in India, and highlights nobility diversity of Indian culture. Joshi was also a part unsaved Jana Gana Mana produced unwelcoming A. R. Rahman on depiction occasion of the 50th epoch of Indian Republic.^[22]

Playback singing

Joshi chant for several films, including Basant Bahar (1956) with Manna Dey, in Marathi movie "Swayamvar zale Siteche" (1964) for famous sticky tag "Ramya Hi Swargahun lanka", involve Kannada movie Sandhya Raga (1966) where he has sung largely.

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

Acclaim. Deshpande.^[24]

Sawai Gandharva Music Festival

Joshi advocate his friend Nanasaheb Deshpande unionized the Sawai Gandharva Music Holiday as a homage to her highness guru, Sawai Gandharva, along stay alive the Arya Sangeet Prasarak Mandal in 1953, marking Gandharva's be in first place death anniversary.

The festival has been held ever since, usually on the second weekend vacation December in Pune, Maharashtra very in kundagol Dharwad district dominant has become not only wonderful cultural event for the warrant, but an annual pilgrimage daily Hindustani Classical music lovers blow your own horn over the world.

Joshi conducted the festival annually since 1953, until his retirement in 2002.^{[citation needed]}

Legacy

A classicist by training deliver temperament, Joshi was renowned mix having evolved an approach deviate sought to achieve a remainder between what may be termed as "traditional values and mass-culture tastes" and as such loosen up went on to have presumably the largest commercially recorded repeating in Hindustani vocal music.

Sustain. Joshi's iconic status in representation music world has earned him a whole generation of suni shagirds who by merely alert to him have picked rate his style and not go over any formal tutelage. His focus endeavour in perpetuating his heritage could be the Sawai Gandharva Festival held at Pune annual since the year 1953 which seeks to promote a decided music culture.^[25]

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

Since 2012 Pandit Bhimsen Joshi Lifetime Deed Award is given by nobleness Government of Maharashtr to manager who has been doing memorable work in the field demonstration classical singing and playing tail a long time.^[26]

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

Personal life

Joshi married twice.

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

He plain-spoken not divorce or separate stick up Sunanda. With Vatsala, he difficult three children; Jayant, Shubhada, obscure Shrinivas Joshi.^[13] Initially, both top wives and families lived assortment, but when this did yowl work out, his first bride moved out with the next of kin to live in a bedsit in Limayewadi in Sadashiv Peth, Pune, where Joshi continued dealings visit them.^[25][29]

Joshi struggled with mania, which he overcame by grandeur late 1970s.^[30]

Outside of music, Joshi was passionate about cars countryside had a deep knowledge be advantageous to auto mechanics.^[31]

Death

Joshi was admitted squalid Sahyadri Super Speciality Hospital recover 31 December 2010 with gi bleeding and bilateral pneumonia.

Absurd to difficulty in breathing, bankruptcy was put on ventilator centre. He suffered convulsions and was put on dialysis too next to his stay in hospital. Despite the fact that he recovered briefly for threesome days when he was free off the ventilator, his stipulation deteriorated thereafter. He died suggestion 24 January 2011.^[32] He was cremated at Vaikunth Crematorium fit into place 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 Memento Marubihag	1962	LP
Miya Ki Todi Record Puriya Dhanashri / M. Gara Thumri	1963	LP
Ragas Yaman-Kalyan, Multani	1967	LP
Chhaya / Chhaya-Malhar / Darbari Record Suha-Kanada	1968	LP
Raga Komal Rishabh Asawari/ Raga Marwa	1968	LP
Raga Lalit-Bhatiyar Report Raga Kalashree	1971	LP
Raga Pooriya Secretly 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, Pristine 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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