Ram Narayan
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Pandit Ram Narayan is a longime and influential Sarangi player. He has played and popularised Sarangi in Indian film music. Born in Udaipur, Rajasthan, Pandit Ram Narayan descends from a family of five generations of exceptional vocalists and instrumentalists. His formal training in music started at age seven under many specialists such as Ustad Mehboob Khan, Pandit Udayalal, Pandit Madhav Prasad and Ustad Abdul Wahid Khan.
By the time he was 14, Narayan had already mastered an instrument which dates back to the earliest known music forms in Indian music history.
While he was a teenager, he was assigned a job as a staff artist at the All India Radio. He began his career as an accompanist to various vocalists, and soon earned the sobriquet of a sarangi shahenshah.
On November 14, 1999 he was awarded the Aditya Vikram Birla Kala Kiran Puraskar to honor his "research and the dedication with which he has practised his art for the last 50 years."[1]
References
- ^ "Sarangi maestro Pt Ram Narayan gets Aditya Birla award". Indian Express. 1999-11-14. Retrieved 2008-07-09.
http://www.the-south-asian.com/April2005/Pandit_Ram_Narayan_sarangi.htm
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