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He received the Odisha Sangeet Natak Akademi award in 1975-76 for Odissi Vocal. [2] He was an Odissi classical music teacher in the GKCM Odissi Research Centre. [3] Balakrushna Dash started his music career as a singer of Odissi classical music (Odissi, Chhanda, Champu and other facets) at AIR, Calcutta in the year 1944. Later he started ...
Among his disciples (alumni of Kalamandira) are renowned vocalist Guru Durjyodhana Sahoo and Odissi Bina exponent Guru Ramarao Patra. [3] Patra is the author of several books on Odissi music, the best-known of them being Odisi Sangita Prakasa (1970) which propounded the theory of 32 melas for scientific classification.
Bhubaneswari Mishra (25 January 1950 — 19 February 2016) was an Odissi classical singer and playback singer. She was a disciple of Adiguru Singhari Shyamsundar Kar. She was married to Dr. Jagamohan Misra, who was a popular physician and poet of Puri town. Her daughter Kasturika Mishra is also a trained classical vocalist.
A special feature of Odissi music is the padi, which consists of words to be sung in Druta Tala (fast beat). [16] Odissi music can be sung to different talas: Navatala (nine beats), Dashatala (ten beats) or Egaratala (eleven beats). Odissi ragas are different from the ragas of Hindustani and Karnataki classical music.
[1] [4] He later served as a lecturer in the same institution and then as the head of the Odissi music department from 1985 to 2010. [3] He is a leading singer and composer of Odissi music. Besides solo recitals and vocal accompaniment in dance, he has won acclaim for composing a large number of songs for Odissi dance and dance-dramas.
Bhikari Bala took the job of an Odissi vocalist at the Kalabikash Kendra, Cuttack.In early 1960s, Bhikari Bal was a struggling artist. Because of his connection to the Kalabikash Kendra, he came to the attention of Kalicharan Pattanayak, the patron saint of anything Odissi and also a well established singer Balakrushna Das.
Amjad Najmi; Annada Shankar Ray; Brajanath Ratha; Fakir Mohan Senapati; Gangadhar Meher; Hussain Rabi Gandhi; Godabarish Mishra; Gopabandhu Das; Gopinath Mohanty
He has performed in music festivals across the country [2] and is the founder of the Gopal Panda Odissi Academy. In 2011, Panda received the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for his contributions to Odissi music. [3] [4] Panda started his initial training in Odissi music from his father Nilamani Panda and his elder brother Nandakishore Panda.