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Shreya Ghoshal

Shreya Ghoshal (born March 12, 1984) is a 2-time National Film Award and 6-time Filmfare Award-winning Indian playback singer of Bengali origin. Winning the Filmfare Best Female Playback Singer Award 4 times (2003, 2004, 2008, 2009) she is currently one of the most popular singers in India. Singing playback for the top actresses in Bollywood including: Madhuri Dixit, Aishwarya Rai, Rani Mukherji, Kareena Kapoor, Bipasha Basu, Priyanka Chopra, Katrina Kaif. As well as some newer stars: Deepika Padukone, Sonam Kapoor and Anushka Sharma.

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tanmoy bose

One of the foremost musicians of the contemporary scenario of World Music, Tanmoy Bose is an indispensable member in the world of rhythm. Born to a family of connoisseurs he first took his talim from the none other than Late Kenai Dutta and after his demise Tanmoy became a Gandabandh Shagird of none else than Pandit Shankar Ghosh. His continuous association with Pt Ravi Shankar and Utstad Amjad Ali Khan confirms his mastery over his subject.

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Bickram Ghosh

Bickram Ghosh (born 20 October 1966) is a famous Indian tabla player. Contents
* 1 Early life
* 2 Discography
* 3 Filmography
* 4 References
* 5 External links
Early life Bickram is son of tabla mastreo Pandit Shankar Ghosh and Sanjukta Ghosh. He studied at La Martiniere for Boys, Kolkata and did his graduation in English from St Xavier’s College, Kolkata and Masters in English Literature from Jadavpur University. He is married to actress Jaya Sil.[2]

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kala ramnath

Kala Ramnath is an Indian violinist, spcialising in Northi Indian classical music. Kala lives in Mumbai, but was born and raised in Madras, in a musical family that excels in North Indian as well as in South Indian clasical music, and that has produced another three world-famous violinists: her guru and aunt N. Rajam, her uncle T.N. Krishnan, and her cousin Sangeeta Shankar. From the beginning Kala played a full-sized violin; her first was given to her by her grandfather when she was two years old.

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Wishpig

Wishpig are a four-piece rock band from the north west of England. They like to play. They are Keith (vocals and guitar), Jonty (bass), Arnold (drums) and William Anthony Woodhouse Banks (guitar, synthetics, free stuff and hair). The band has big plans and a Zac Effron calender for 2009.

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Faiz Ali Faiz

Faiz Ali Faiz (born 1962 in Sharaqpur, Pakistan) is one of the main singers of qawwali, a devotional musical expression of the Sufis, a mystical offshoot of Islam. Faiz Ali Faiz comes from a family of qawwals from seven generations in Pakistan. He started his professional career in 1978, at age 16, creating at the same time his own qawwali ensemble. Though Faiz is from Lahore, he practices the doaba style from eastern Pakistan. He stated in recent interviews he has been influenced by Sham-Chaurasi, a famous Khayal singing school where Ustad Salamat Ali Khan belongs to.

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Niladri Kumar

Niladri Kumar is the son and disciple of Sitar Maestro Pandit Kartick Kumar, who is the senior most disciple of Pandit Ravi Shankar. Niladri Kumar started learning when he was four and gave his first performance at the age of six at the Aurobindo ashram in Pondicherry. Niladri is known for playing an electric 5-string sitar and utilizing distortions and loops in his performances. He calls his sitar a zitar and is in the process of patenting its design.

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Zakir Hussain

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. Zakir Hussain has worked with many leading Western and Indian artists, and has produced many works of East-West fusion, perhaps most notably with George Harrison.

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Hariprasad Chaurasia

Hariprasad Chaurasia (b. 1st July 1938) is known internationally as the greatest living master of the bansuri, the North Indian bamboo flute. Chaurasia is among the small but growing number of classicists who have made a conscious effort to reach out and expand the audience for classical music. He is probably the most accessible Hindustani musician, and has done much to popularise the bansuri and classical music.

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Remember Shakti

Remember Shakti is the second incarnation of guitarist John McLaughlin's group which plays a fusion of indian music and jazz. The original Shakti was most active between 1975 and 1978; Remember Shakti was formed in 2000 and has played on and off since then. The core of Remember Shakti is guitarist John McLaughlin and master tabla player and percussionist Zakir Hussain, both members of the original Shakti. On the first recording from 2000, T.H. Vinayakram (also a member of the original Shakti) plays ghatam and Indian drum, and Hariprasad Chaurasia plays bansuri flute.

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