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Biography of Bhimsen Joshi

Bhimsen Joshi – Indian singer.

Name: Pandit Bhimsen Gururaj Joshi

Date of Birth: 4 February 1922

Place of Birth: Ron, Karnataka, India

Date of Death: 24 January 2011 (aged 88)

Place of Death: Pune, Maharashtra, India

Occupation: Singer

Father: Gururaj Joshi

Mother: Godavaraibai

Spouse/Ex: Sunanda Katti (m.

1944), Vatsala Mudholkar (m. 1951)

Children: Raghavendra, Usha, Sumangala, Anand, Jayant, Shubhada, and Shrinivas Joshi

Early Life

One of India’s most admired singers of traditional Hindustani ragas (melodic frameworks for vocal improvisation), most notably of the khayal (a two-part poetic song) and the bhajan (a Hindi devotional hymn, or chant), Bhimsen Joshi was born in a Deshastha Madhwa Brahmin family in a town called Ron, Karnataka, in the Gadag district of present-day Karnataka state on 4 February 1922 to Gururaj Joshi (who had authored a Kannada-English dictionary) and Ramabai, a home-maker.

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