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Pandit Madhav Gudi (23 December 1941 - 22 April 2011) was a legendary Hindustani Classical Vocalist specialising in Khayal and light forms and a disciple of Pt. Bhimsen Joshi.
Pandit Madhav Gudi hails from the illustrious north Karnataka city of Dharwad, which has produced such distinguished stalwarts as Pt. Mallikarjun Mansur, Pta. Gangubai Hangal, and Pt. Basavraj Rajguru.

Pandit Mallikarjun Bheemarayappa Mansur (31 December 1910 - 12 September 1992) was an Indian Classical Singer of the Khyal style in the Jaipur-Atrauli Gharana of Hindustani Classical Music.
He received all 3 National Padma Awards, the Padma Shri in 1970, Padma Bhushan in 1976 and Padma Vibhushan, the 2nd highest civilian honour given by Government of India in 1992. In 1982, he was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship, the highest honour conferred by the Sangeet Natak Akademi.

Pandit Shrikrishna Narayan Ratanjankar 'Sujan' (31 December 1900 - 14 February 1974) occupied a pre-eminent position in the spectacular developments in the field of Hindustani music in the 20th century. A foremost disciple of Chatur Pandit Bhatkhande and a ganda-bandh shagird of the great Ustad Faiyaz Khan, Ratanjankar was an excellent performer, a learned scholar and a great guru with a number of accomplished disciples. His ascetic simplicity, his dedication to and personal sacrifice for the propagation of classical music are legendary.

Vidushi Lakshmi Shankar (née Sastri) was an Indian singer and a noted Hindustani classical vocalist of the Patiala Gharana. She was known for her performances of khyal, thumri, and bhajan. She was the sister-in-law of Legendary Sitar Maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar and the mother-in-law of violinist Dr. L. Subramaniam (her daughter Viji (Vijayashree Shankar) Subramaniam being his first wife).

Ustad Nasir Aminuddin Dagar (20 October 1923, Indore, India - 28 December 2000, Kolkata, India) was an Eminent Indian dhrupad singer in the dagar-vani style.

Ustad Haafiz Ali Khan (1877 - 28 December 1972) was an Indian Sarod Maestro. He was a tall figure in twentieth-century sarod music. A fifth-generation descendant of the famous Bangash Gharana of sarod players, Haafiz Ali was known for the lyrical beauty of his music and the crystal-clear tone of his strokes. The occasional critic has, however, observed that Khan's imagination was often closer to the semi-classical thumri idiom than the austere dhrupad style prevalent in his times. He was a recipient of the civilian honour of the Padma Bhushan.

Sombala Kumar is a Dhrupad vocalist of India. She studied with Ustad Zia Fariduddin Dagar, a singer of the 19th generation of the dynasty of Dagar Gharana. She also studied with Ustad Zia Mohiuddin Dagar.[citation needed]

Dhondutai Kulkarni, (23 July 1927 – 1 June 2014) was an Indian classical singer from the Jaipur-Atrauli gharana. She was the last legendary exponent of orthodox Jaipur-Atrauli Gharana.

Early life

Vasundhara Komkali (1931–2015), popularly known as Vasundhara Tai, was an Indian classical musician and one of the leading exponents of the Gwalior gharana, an old Khyal tradition of Hindustani music. She was the wife of renowned musician, Kumar Gandharva,] and was a recipient of the 2009 Sangeet Natak Akademi Award. The Government of India awarded her the fourth highest civilian honour of the Padma Shri, in 2006, for her contributions to Indian classical music.