Shiv Ram Hari Rajguru was born in an average middle-class Hindu Brahmin family at Khed in Poona district in 1906. He came ..

Joshi was born in Gadag district of northern
Karnataka, to a Kannada Madhwa Brahmin family. His
father, Gururaj Joshi, was a school teacher. Bhimsen was the eldest
in a family of 16 siblings. Some of the siblings still live in
their ancestral home in Gadag. As a child, Pandit Bhimsen Joshi's
craving for music was evident to his family as he managed to lay
his hands on a 'tanpura' used by his 'Kirtankar' grandfather, which
had been kept away from his gaze at home. Music had such a magnetic
pull over him that a 'bhajan singing' procession or just 'azaan'
from a nearby mosque was said to draw him out of house.
Musical training : Until the first half of the
20th century, khyal was principally taught in the Guru Shishya
(master-disciple) tradition. Bhimsen's guru Sawai Gandharva was the
chief disciple of Abdul Karim Khan, who along with his cousin Abdul
Wahid Khan was the founder of the Kirana Gharana school of
Hindustani music.
Search for a guru : Joshi heard a record of Abdul
Karim Khan's Thumri "Piya Bin Nahi Aavat Chain" in
Raga Jhinjhoti when he was a child, which inspired him to become a
musician. In 1933, the 11-year-old Joshi left Dharwad for Bijapur
to find a master and learn music.
Sawai Gandharva : In 1936, Rambhau Kundgolkar
(alias Sawai Gandharva), a native of Dharwad,
agreed to be his guru. Bhimsen Joshi stayed at his house in the
traditional guru-shishya (teacher-student) tradition, gleaning
knowledge of music from his master as and when he could, while
performing odd-jobs in his house. Another renowned vocalist from
the Kirana Gharana, Gangubai Hangal, was a co-student of Bhimsen
during this time. Joshi continued his training with Sawai Gandharva
till 1940.
Legacy : Bhimsen Joshi was known for his powerful
voice, amazing breath control, musical sensibility and grasp of the
fundamentals, representing a subtle fusion of intelligence and
passion that imparted life and excitement to his music. A
classicist by training and temperament, Pandit Bhimsen Joshi was
renowned for having evolved an approach that sought to achieve a
balance between what may be termed as "traditional values and
mass-culture tastes" and as such he went on to have supposedly the
largest commercially recorded repertoire in Hindustani vocal music.
His greatest endeavour in perpetuating his legacy could be the
Sawai Gandharva Festival held at Pune annually since the year 1953
which seeks to promote a certain music culture.
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