Siddhartha Belmannu, a classical vocalist from Karkala, Karnataka, has been making waves in the Indian music scene with his unique blend of tradition and innovation. Trained under renowned Vinayak ...

2017), draws on a decade of ethnographic and archival research and eight years of musical apprenticeship under the chief musician of a legendary lineage to propound a critical re-reading of modern ...

The Indian classical music icon died from idiopathic ... Chaurasia won Best Global Music Performance and Best Contemporary Instrumental Album. He had earlier won a Grammy in 2009.

Hence the current interest in another country with a population north of a billion, and a rapidly growing middle class: India. Western classical music here is nothing new - in the late 19th ...

Hussain earned global acclaim as one of the greatest tabla players of his generation. In a career spanning over six decades, he was instrumental in introducing a fusion of Indian classical and jazz.