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Ustad Qurban Hussain Khan (Urdu: ٱستار قـربان حسن قان‎) belonged to the legendary of Gwalior Gharana. He was son of Ustad Bade Inayat Hussain Khan and grand son of Ustad Haddu Khan saheb.

Ustad Raza Ali Khan (born on 8 August 1962 in Karachi, Pakistan) is an Indian classical vocalist of the Kasur Patiala gharana.

Early years
Raza Ali Khan was born in Karachi, Pakistan to Hindustani classical vocalist Ustad Munawar Ali Khan, who was the son of The Legendary Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan. He received his early training from his grandfather and then from his father. He also accompanied his father on concerts.

Career
Raza Ali performs Khayal, Thumri, Dadra, Ghazal, Geet, Sozkhani, Noha Khani, and Manqabat.

A short highlight on his musical career and achievements ;
Pt. Girija Shankar Chakrabarty was born at Behrampur, West Bengal on December 18, 1885. His father Bhavani Kishore was a lawyer from Mymensingh. Talented in music, acting and painting, he began his study in a music school founded by Radhika Prasad Goswami with financial assistance from the Nawab of Kasimbazar.

Pandit ShankarRao Ganesh Vyas (23 January 1898 - 17 December 1956) was born in Kolhapur, Maharashtra. He learnt music from Pandit Vishnu Digambar Paluskar. He was brother of Narayanrao Vyas. He was a sitar player, too. He composed music for Hindi, Marathi & Gujarati movies.

Pandit Suresh Haldankar (18 December 1926 - 17 January 2000) of Goa was introduced to music by his family elders. Very early in his youth he excelled as an actor-singer in Marathi musicals and was offered a position in the Mahesh Natak Mandali of Pune. His initial musical mentors were Pt. Bapurao Ketkar and Pt. Govindrao Tembe, both senior musicians of the Atrauli-Jaipur school. Haldankar later took training under the Agra Gharana master, Pt. Jagannathbuwa Purohit (“Gunidas”), and still later, from Pt. Ganpatrao Dewaskar and Agrawale Ustad Anwar Hussain Khan.

Very few people leave an indelible impression in our lives through a personality that is forceful, yet amiable, dominant yet graceful and, principled yet flexible. Such a personality was Vidushi Dipali Nag. In those days when women singers from cultivated homes were almost a rarity, she stood out as a source of inspiration because of her entry as an educated girl into the world of true professionals, pioneering the spread of Classical and semi-classical music among the ladies.

Vidushi Savita Devi also known as Savita Maharaj hailed from a well known musical family of Banaras Gharana that has produced many exponents of classical and light classical music during the last couple of centuries. Daughter of the late Padmashri Smt. Siddheshwari Devi, has not only inherited a rich tradition of classical music but was a vocalist of rare artistry in her own right. It will not be an exaggeration to say that she had her first lessons in the womb of her famous mother who was regarded as the reigning Queen of Thumri.

A musical prodigy from the age of four, Vidushi Zarin Sharma nee Daruwala (9 October 1946 - 20 December 2014) is a celebrated sarod maestro. Her gurus are Pandit Haripada Ghosh, Pandit Bhishmadev Vedi, Pandit Laxmanprasad Jaipurwale, Pandit V. G. Jog, Dr. S. C. R. Bhat and Padma Bhushan Dr. S. N. Ratanjankar. Zarin ji possesses a rare command over this enchanting instrument and has a distinctive individual style. She plays with great finesse and her mastery of the instrument is rooted in a thorough understanding of it and years of dedicated practice.

Pandit Debojyoti Bose, alias Tony, naturally inherits an unstrained musical acumen, for he was born in a family of passionate musicians,on the 20 December 1962 at Kolkata. He is the fourth generation musician in the Bose family. His great grandfather Sri Akshay Kumar Bose, a jaminder of Pankobil in Jessore, now in Bangladesh, had a great passion for tabla which was passed on to the generations that followed. That is how he is a born tabla player. His father Pandit Biswanath Bose a tabla legend of Benaras gharana, a disciple of Pandit Kanthe Maharaj and his mother Smt.

உஸ்தாத் பயாசு கான் (Faiyaz Khan) (8 பிப்ரவரி 1886 – 5 நவம்பர் 1950) இவர் ஓர் இந்திய பாரம்பரிய பாடகரும், இந்துஸ்தானி இசையின் ஆக்ரா கரானாவின் (பாடும் பாணி) நிபுணருமாவார்.  இவர், வடோதராவில் தான் இறக்கும் போது, இந்த நூற்றாண்டின் மிகச் சிறந்த மற்றும் செல்வாக்கு மிக்க பாடகர்களில் ஒருவராக புகழ் பெற்றிருந்தார்.