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TOP 23 MUSICIANS FROM INDIA

(All lists in www.selcukschoices.blogspot.com - Tüm listeler için www.selcukschoices.blogspot.com)

1. Ravi Shankar
2. Nitin Sawhney
3. Ustad Vilayat Khan
4. Hariprasad Chaurasia
5. Lata Mangeshkar
6. Mohammed Rafi
7. Ananda Shankar
8 Sheila Chandra
9. Shakti
10. Shankar Jaikishan
11 Nikhil Banerjee
12. Ali Akbar Khan
13. A.R. Rahman
14. Tabla Beat Science
15. Zakir Hussain
16. Talvin Singh
17. Kishore Kumar
18. Shivkumar Sharma
19. Ram Narayan
20. Mukesh
21. Anoushka Shankar
22. Trilok Gurtu
23. Asha Bhosle


Comment about missed names which should be in list and not deserving ones.

I have been listening to classical music of North India since my late teens. Now I can't think of my existence without this life-giving music. I will try to list a few great masters and their albums in this journal.

Top 25 Maestros of North Indian Classical Music

Instrumental:

Ravi Shankar
Ali Akbar Khan
Nikhil Banerjee
Shivkumar Sharma
Hariprasad Chaurasia
Bismillah Khan
Alla Rakha
Zakir Hussain
Ram Narayan
Amjad Ali Khan
Asad Ali Khan
Vilayat Khan
Abdul Halim Jaffer Khan

Vocal:

Bhimsen Joshi
Jasraj
Kumar Gandharva
Amir Khan
Mallikarjun Mansur
C. R. Vyas
Kishori Amonkar
Rashid Khan
Ajoy Chakrabarty

Albums:

Daylight Ragas

Tag these artists as indian classical ...this will help build a decent Radio Station here.

Let me know if I've missed out any artists

Abdul Karim Khan
Ajay Pohankar
Ajoy Chakraborty
Akhtar Sadmani
Ali Akbar Khan
Alla Rakha
Alla Rakha, Kishan Maharaj, Zakir Hussain, Fazal Qureshi, Sarwar Sabri
Alladiya Khan
Allauddin Khan
Amelia Cuni
Amelia Maciszewski
Amir Khan
Amjad Ali Khan
Anita Sen
Anoushka Shankar
Anuradha Kuber
Anuradha Pal
Anwar Khan Manghaniyar
Arati Ankalikar
Arun Dravid
Asad Ali Khan
Asha Khadilkar
Ashiq Ali Khan
Ashit Desai, Liyakant Ali Khan, Madhu Dhumal, Rakesh Chaurasia, Rupak Kulkarni, Sunil Das & Ulhas Bapat
Ashwini Bhide
Ashwini Bhide & Veena Sahasrabuddhe
Ashwini Bhide Deshpande
Badar-uz-Zaman
Bade Ghulam Ali Khan
Barkat Ali Khan
Begum Akhtar
Bhimsen Joshi
Bikram Ghosh & Niladri Kumar
Bismillah Khan
Brij Bhushan Kabra
Budhaditya Mukherjee
Bundu Khan LangaVeena Sahasrabuddhe / Umakant & Ramakant Gundecha
C R Vyas
Chandrakantha
Channulal Mishra
Chitra Singh
D V Paluskar
Dagar Brothers
Daya Shankar
Debashish Bhattacharya
Deenanath Mangeshkar
Devaki Pandit
Dhondutai Kulkarni
Dilraj Kaur
Dilshad Khan
Dinkar Kaikini
Faiyaz Khan
Farida Khanum
fateh ali khan
Fazal Qureshi
Firoz Dastur
Gangubai Hangal
Ganpati Bhat
GAUHAR JAN
Ghulam Ali
Ghulam Hassan Shagan
Ghulam Mustafa Khan
Girija Devi
Gundecha Brothers
Hariprasad Chaurasia
Hariprasad Chaurasia and Fazal Qureshi
Hirabai Badodekar
Imrat Khan
Iqbal Ahmad Khan
Iqbal Bano
Ishrad Khan
Jagdish Prasad
Jawaad Ali Khan
Jayanti Sahasrabuddhe
Jayateerth Mevundi
Jitendra Abhisheki
JNAN PRAKASH GHOSH
Joseph J. Palackal
K.V.Narayanaswamy
Kabir Altaf
Kadri Gopalnath
kala ramnath
Kalapini Komkali
Kalpana Zokarkar
Kaushiki Chakrabarty
Khansahib Nasiruddin Saami
Kishori Amonkar
Krishnamurti Sridhar
Kumar Gandharva
Kunnakudi Vaidyanathan
Kundanlal
Kushal Das
L Shankar
L. Subramaniam
Lakshmi Shankar
Lalgudi Jayaraman
Latafat Hussain Khan
Laxmi Ganesh Tewari
M.K. Thyagaraja Bhagavarthar
M S Subbulakshmi
M. Balamuralikrishna
Madhava Gudi
Madhup Mudgal
Malavika Kanan
Malini Rajurkar
Mallikarjun Mansur
Mashkoor Ali Khan
Mazhar Ali Khan
Milind Tulankar & Rajendra Kulni
Mitali Banerjee Bhawmik
Mogubai Kurdikar
Mohammad Bakhsh
Moinuddin & Aminuddin Dagar
Moumita Mitra
Munawar Ali Khan
Dr. N. Ramani
N. Rajam
Nagaraja Rao Havaldar
Nayan Ghosh
Neela Bhagwat
Nikhil Banerjee
Nikhil Ghosh
Niladri Kumar
Nirmala Devi
Nirmalya Dey
Balaram Pathak
Hariprasad Chaurasia
Pandit Jasraj
Sharda Sahai
Pannalal Ghosh
Partho Sarothy
Parveen Sultana
Parween Sultana
Prabha Atre
Praveen Godkhindi
pran nath
Purbayan Chatterjee
Raghunath Seth
Rahul Sharma
Rais Khan
Rajan & Sajan Mishra
Ramnad Krishnan
Ram Narayan
Ram Narayan, Anindo Chatterjee, Uma Mehta, Uma Phalke
Rashid Khan
Ratna Basu
Ravi Shankar
Remeber Shakti
Rita Ganguly
Ronu Majumdar
S. Balachander
Sabri Khan
Saleem Khan
Sanjeev Abhyankar
Santosh Nahar
Santosh Nahar and Shabbir Hussain
Satyasheel Deshpande
Sawai Gandharva
Sawani Shende
Sayeeduddin Dagar
Shahid Parvez
Shivkumar Sharma
Shivkumar Sharma, Brijbhushan Kabra & Hariprasad Chaurasia
Shobha Gurtu
Shruti Sadolika
Shubha Mudgal
Shujaat Khan
Sipra Bose
Subha Joshi
Sultan Khan
Taufiq Quereshi
Trilok Gurtu
Tripti Mukerjee
T.H. Vikku Vinayakram
U Srinivas
Uday Bhawalkar
Ulhas Bapat
Ulhas Kashalkar
Ustad Alla Rakha and Zakir Hussain
Ustad Vilayat Khan & Pandit Kishan Maharaj
Vaishali K S
Vasundhara Komkali
Veena Sahasrabuddhe
Veena Sahasrabuddhe / Umakant & Ramakant Gundecha
Vikas Gupta
Vilayat Khan
Vishwa Mohan Bhatt
Zahida Parveen
Zakir Husain, Fazal Quraishi & Ustad Allah Rakha
Zakir Hussain
Zarina Begum
Zia Fariddudin Dagar
Zia Mohiuddin Dagar
Zila Khan
Amjad Ali Khan & V.G. Jog

Hi folks,
For those of you who enjoy listening to traditional classical South Asian music, you're welcome to use my tag: Indian Classical

Here are all the streamable Indian classical artists I've found so far at last.fm:

Abdul Karim Khan
Ajoy Chakrabarty
Ajoy Chakraborty
Ali Akbar Khan
Alla Rakha & Zakir Hussain
Alla Rakha, Kishan Maharaj, Zakir Hussain, Fazal Qureshi, Sarwar Sabri
Allauddin Khan
Amir Khan
Amjad Ali Khan
Anirban Dasgupta & Sandip Bhattacharya
Anoushka Shankar
Anuradha Pal
Asad Ali Khan
Bade Ghulam Ali Khan
Begum Akhtar
Bhimsen Joshi
Bismillah Khan
Brij Narayan
Buddhadev Das Gupta
Budhaditya Mukherjee
Chitti Babu
Daya Shankar
Deepak Ram
Diana Rogers
Gangubai Hangal
Ghazal
Girija Devi
Gopal Shankar Misra
Gundecha Brothers
Hari Prasad Chaurasia
Hariprasad Chaurasia
Hila Himbala
Hirabai Barodekar
Jasraj
Jay Kishor
Jugalbandi
kala ramnath
Kartik Seshadri
Kishori Amonkar
Kumar Gandharva
Kushal Das
Lakshmi Shankar
Madhup Mudgal
Mallikarjun Mansur
Musicians & Poets Of Râjasthân
Nikhil Banerjee
Nishat Khan
Padma Talwalkar
Pandit Dulal Roy & Sandip Bhattacharya
Pandit Jasraj
Pannalal Ghosh
Prabha Atre
Purbayan Chatterjee
Purna Das Baul
Raghunath Seth
Rahul Sharma
Rais Khan
Rajan & Sajan Mishra
Rajan & Sajan Mishra & Shruti Sadolikar
Rajan & Sajan Mishra, Shahid Parvez, Shruti Sadolikar
Ram Narayan
Rattan Mohan Sharma
Ravi Shankar
Ravi Shankar & Ali Akbar Khan
Sanjeev Abhyankar
Sarwar Sabri
Sayeeduddin Dagar
Shahid Parvez
Shankar
Shankar Family & Friends
Shiv Kumar Sharma
Shivkumar Sharma
Shivkumar Sharma & Zakir Hussain
Shobha Gurtu
Shruti Sadolikar
Shubha Mudgal
Shujaat Khan
Steve Smith and Zakir Hussain
Sultan Khan
Swami Chidvilasananda
Uday Bhawalkar
Ustad Ali Akbar Khan
Ustad Alla Rakha and Zakir Hussain
Ustad Amjad Ali Khan
ustad bismillah khan
Ustad Sabri Khan
Ustad Sarahang
Ustad Shahid Parvez
Ustad Shujaat Khan
Ustad Vilayat Khan
V.G. Jog
Veena Sahasrabuddhe
Vikas Gupta
Vilayat Khan
Zakir Hussain

I also appreciate these categories, which are substantially different:

Carnatic(classical music from the south of India)
Qawwali (classical Sufi-inspired singing from Pakistan & Afghanistan)
South Asian (other non-classical non-pop music from the countries south of the Himlayas)
Asian Underground (south- and central Asian music with an electronic element)

Also:
bhangra (a type of Pakistani pop music)
bollywood (general South Asian popular soundtrack music)

South Asian classical music can be found in these groups:

Eastern Invasion
Indian Classical Music
Sitar
South Asian Roots

In my opinion, tags such as "world", "ethnic", and "fusion" are meaningless because they are deeply ethnocentric and they fail to provide any useful differentiatiation.