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Gokulotsavji Maharaj is a worldwide acclaimed most senior Hindustani Classical Vocal Music doyen, specializing in Khayal, Dhrupad Dhammar, Prabandh Gayaki and various Ancient Indian Musical Styles. He is also a singer cum composer, writer, poet, musicologist, and philosopher-Vedant scholar.

Anjanibai Malpekar (22 April 1883 – 7 August 1974) was a noted Indian classical singer, belonging to the Bhendibazaar gharana of Hindustani classical music.

In 1958, she became the first woman to be awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship, the highest honour conferred by the Sangeet Natak Akademi, India's National Academy for Music, Dance and Drama.

Acclaimed for her beauty in her youth, Malpekar was the muse of painters Raja Ravi Varma and M. V. Dhurandhar

Sureshbabu Mane (1902– 15 February 1953) was a prominent Hindustani classical music singer of Kirānā Gharānā in India. He was the son of a doyen of Kirana Gharana, Ustad Abdul Karim Khan.

Ramanlal C. Mehta (31 October 1918 – 18 October 2014) was an Indian musician and musicologist. In 2009, he was awarded the Padma Bhushan, India's third-highest civilian honour.

Life
Ramanlal was a Gujarati[2] who was born on 31 October 1918 in Surat in the state of Gujarat. He retired in 1978, from the MS University of Baroda, after serving as Principal of the College of Indian Music, Dance & Dramatics / Faculty of Performing Arts for several years. He died after a fall in 2014 at the age of 95.

Pandit Falguni Mitra is a Hindustani classical vocalist who is known as a Dhrupad exponent of IndiaMitra belongs to the Bettiah gharana.

Mitra combines the Dagar style of “Alaapchari” with the Betia style of Dhrupad and Dhamaar .

Early life
Mitra was initiated into music by his father, Sangeetacharya Shib Mitra, at the age of five.

Madhup Mudgal is an Indian Hindustani classical music vocalist.,[2] known for his khayal and bhajan renditions. A disciple of Kumar Gandharva, he is also a composer, conductor of famous Gandharva Choir and has been principal of the Gandharva Mahavidyalaya, Delhi, a music and dance school since 1995[

He received the prestigious Padma Shri award from the Government of India in 2006.[

Pandit Deenanath Mangeshkar (29 December 1900 - 24 April 1942) was an exceptional Hindustani Classical, Semi-Classical and Natya-Sangeet Vocalist and Marathi theatre actor. He is popularly addressed as Master Deenanath Mangeshkar and better known as the father of great Mangeshkar sisters. His kids -Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhosle, Hridayanath Mangeshkar, Meena Khadikar and Usha Mangeshkar are of course the biggest names of Indian musical industry!

Pandit Nikhil Jyoti Ghosh (28 December 1918 – 3 March 1995) was an Indian musician, teacher and writer, known his proficiency on the percussion instrument of Tabla. He founded Sangit Mahabharati, an institution of music in 1956, and performed on various stages in India and abroad. A recipient of the Ustad Hafiz Ali Khan Award, his style was known to have been aligned with the Delhi, Ajrada, Farukhabad, Lucknow and Punjab gharanas of Tabla. The Government of India awarded him the third highest civilian honour of the Padma Bhushan, in 1990, for his contributions to Music.

Pandit Bhimsen Joshi, who took the treasure of Hindustani classical music to new heights of prosperity with his energetic voice, passed away in Pune after a long illness.

His family informed that Joshi ji was admitted to the hospital on December 31. His kidneys and respiratory system stopped working due to old age problems, after which he was placed on life support system.

Singing in natural tones like the murmur of a flowing river, MS Subbalakshmi blended her devotional sentiments with the seriousness of Indian classical music to create a melody that still delights the listeners.