New Delhi: Famend Hindustani classical vocalist Pandit Bhimsen Joshi has been awarded the Bharat Ratna, the nation’s highest civilian award.
“The President is happy to award the Bharat Ratna to Pandit Bhimsen Joshi,” a Rashtrapati Bhavan communique stated on Tuesday.
Born on February 4, 1922 at Gadag within the state of Karnataka, he’s additionally the recipient of Padma Vibhushan (1999), Padma Bhushan (1985) and Padma Shri (1972).
A descendant of ‘Kirana Gharana (stream)’, Bhimsen Joshi is thought for khayal type of singing and likewise for his bhajans. His first dwell efficiency was on the age of 19 and his debut album, containing a number of devotional songs in Kannada and Hindi, was launched a 12 months later.
At 11, he left his dwelling to study singing by the guru-shishya custom and spent three years in Gwalior, Lucknow and Rampur looking for guru. In 1936, Rambhau Kundgolkar, popularly often known as Sawai Gandharva, agreed to be his guru.
The Bharat Ratna had not been conferred on anybody since 2001, when it was collectively awarded to Lata Mangeshkar and Ustad Bismillah Khan. A number of names, together with these of former prime ministers Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Chandra Shekhar and Charan Singh, had been proposed for the award. BJP prime ministerial candidate L.Ok. Advani had proposed Vajpayee’s title.
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