Rajeev Janardan Musical artist

Rajeev Janardan (born 1967), is a Hindustani classical sitar player of the Imdadkhani gharana (school), taught by Bimalendu Mukherjee. He lives in New Delhi.Jaranadan comes from Kerala, and started to learn the guitar at the age of 12 when living in Benares. He trained as a singer before switching to the sitar, studying with Mukherjee.At the age of 15, Janardan won the All India Music Competition. He has also won the Prayag Sangit Samiti All-India Music Competition and the Sur Singar Samsad competition in Mumbai, and at the age of 19, he became an A grade artist of All India Radio and Doordarshan.Following on from good reviews for a performance at the India International Centre in 1996, he has performed extensively both within India and overseas, including Switzerland in 2008. In his playing, he strives to blend gayaki ang (vocal style) and tantra ang (instrumental style). It is characterised by accurate meend, advanced surlagao, fast and clear taankari in gat and dirdir and chikari variations in jhala.Janaradan also has a master's degree in psychology.

Personal facts

Birth dateJanuary 01, 1967
Hometown
India

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Musical artist

BackgroundNon vocal instrumentalist
genre
Indian classical music
instrument
Surbahar
Sitar
Rudra veena

Rajeev Janardan on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://www.rajeevjanardan.com