Similar Artists

Hariprasad Chaurasia

228,389 plays (36,151 listeners)

Hariprasad Chaurasia (b. 1st July 1938) is known internationally as the greatest living master of the bansuri, the North Indian bamboo flute.

Ali Akbar Khan

198,742 plays (37,532 listeners)

Ali Akbar Khan (1922 - 18 June 2009), born in Brahmanbaria, India (now Bangladesh), began his studies in music at the age of three. He studied vocal music from his father and drums from his uncle, Fakir Aftabuddin. His father also trained him on several other instruments, but decided finally that he must concentrate on the sarode and on vocal.

Ravi Shankar and Philip Glass

343,628 plays (66,036 listeners)

This historic collaboration of two of the most notable figures of late Twentieth Century music brings full circle a process which began when promising young American composer and performing artist Philip Glass met Indian master musician and composer Ravi Shankar in Paris in 1965.

Shivkumar Sharma

98,662 plays (18,820 listeners)

Shivkumar Sharma (born January 13, 1938) is an Indian classical musician, working in the Hindustani classical music tradition. He is a master of the santoor, a folk instrument from the valley of Kashmir. It is a type of hammered dulcimer whose strings are struck with a pair of light carved wooden mallets. Before him the santoor was regarded as only an accompanying instrument.

Ravi Shankar & Ali Akbar Khan

19,660 plays (4,069 listeners)

Two of the most precious flowers in the garden of Indian music, probably the greatest and most widely known internationally - Pandit Ravi Shankar and Ustad Ali Akbar Khan -- rose to world eminence under the guidance of the legendary Baba Allauddin Khan.

Zakir Hussain

284,178 plays (49,258 listeners)

Ustad Zakir Hussain (born 9 March 1951), son of tabla player Ustad Allah Rakha, is the most famous classical tabla player in India (and, probably, in the world) today. He is appreciated both in the field of percussion and in the music world at large. He has won many awards and much recognition for his contributions.

Nikhil Banerjee

68,135 plays (14,269 listeners)

Nikhil Banerjee (Bangla: নিখিল ব্যানার্জী) (14 October 1931–27 January 1986) was one of India's most prominent sitar players of the second half of the 20th Century. He never achieved the glamour of Vilayat Khan or his gurubhai Ravi Shankar, but Nikhil Banerjee did win great critical acclaim and the hearts of many music lovers. He is remembered as a musician's musician.

Ananda Shankar

430,573 plays (62,717 listeners)

Ananda Shankar (11 December 1942 - 26 March 1999) was an Indian musician best known for his fusion of Western and Eastern musical styles. He was married to Tanushree Shankar.