Best Musicians In India

 

Pt. Shiv Kumar Sharma

Pandit Shivkumar Sharma is an Indian music composer and santoor player from the state of Jammu and Kashmir. He was revolutionized the role of the instrument in Hindustani music. An instrument that had previously served the role of merely an accompanist instrument, was now in limelight as a solo instrument. The santoor is originally a folk instrument, but became an instrument for Indian classical through his internationally recognized playing style. Winner of the prestigious Sangeet Natak Akademi award and also the Padma Shri, Shivakumar Sharma is definitely one of the most famous Indian musicians.

Hariprasad Chaurasia

Hariprasad Chaurasia is an Indian music director and classical flautist, who plays the flute, in the Hindustani classical tradition. This famous classical flautist, is well known for his wonderful flute compositions in the Hindustani classical tradition. Apart from that, he is also a renowned music composer for so many well-known movies of Bollywood. Movies such as Silsila, Darr, Chandni, and Lamhe owe their wonderful music to this gem along with Shivkumar Sharma.

Ustad Zakir Hussain

Ustad Zakir Hussain is an Indian table virtuoso, composer, percussionist, music producer and film actor. This prodigy gave his first concert at the tender age of 7. This master tabla player and percussionist is internationally acclaimed. He not only popularised the art of playing the tabla as a solo instrument but also served as an accompanist to many famous voices and instrument players of the Hindustani classical music tradition. He has won several awards including the padma Shri and Padma Bushan.

Bismillah Khan

Bismillah Khan, often referred to by the title Ustad, was an Indian musician credited with popularizing the shehnai, a record woodwind instrument. When we talk about the instrument shehnai, the name of only one person comes to everyone's mind -Ustad Bismillah Khan. The Sheer briliance with which he played this instrument inspired the government to send him to perform at the Edinburgh Music Festival which gained him many followers from the west. He was awarded the highest civilian honour of India, the Bharat Ratna in 2001, five years before his demise.

Thetakudi Harihara Vinayakram

T. H. Vinayakram, also known as Vikku Vinayakram, is an Indian percussionist. He is also known as the God of ghatam. He plays carnatic music with the ghatam, an earthen pot, and is credited with popularising the ghatam. This famous Grammy-Winning percussionist is also popularly called the God of ghatam. He specializes in carnatic music. He has won several awards such as the sangeet Natak Akademi Award, Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan.