Name: Hariprasad Chaurasia
Brand: StarClinch
SKU: 266392
Rating: 4.3 (72 reviews)

Does Hariprasad Chaurasia smoke? No.Does Hariprasad Chaurasia drink alcohol?: No.His mother died when he was 6 years old and was brought up by his father. His father wants him to be a wrestler but he started learning music without his fathers knowledge.He started learning vocal music from his neighbor, Pandit Rajaram, at the age of 15 but later, he started playing the flute under the guidance of Pandit Bholanath Prasanna of Varanasi for eight years.In 1957, he also worked as a composer and a performer in All India Radio in Cuttack, Odisha.He moved to Mumbai to be a disciple of Annapurna Devi, the daughter of Baba Allaudin Khan and first wife of Pandit Ravi Shankar, who helped him in enhancing his repertoire of ragas and compositions as well as strengthen his career as a classical musician.Annapurna Devi agreed to teach him over two conditions, first was that he has to unlearn all that he had learned until then and another one was, that he has to take the decision to switch playing the flute from right-hand to left-hand to show her his commitment towards music. Since then Hariprasad Chaurasia plays left-handed only.He shared a great friendship with Shivkumar Sharma and people named that duo Shiv-Hari, this duo has composed many songs together for various films such as Chandni, Darr, Lamhe, Silsila and many more.He also served as the artistic director of the World Music Department at the Rotterdam Music Conservatory in the Netherlands and also the founder of the Vrindavan Gurukul in Mumbai and Bhubaneshwar.He has collaborated with several western musicians, including John McLaughlin, Jan Garbarek, Ken Lauber, Yehudi Menuhin and Jean-Pierre Rampa.

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Hariprasad Chaurasia

from Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh

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