Raghunandan Panshikar | |
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Background information | |
Born | 1963 |
Origin | India |
Genres | Hindustani classical music, Jaipur Gharana |
Occupation(s) | Classical Vocalist |
Years active | 2004 - present |
Website | www |
Pandit Raghunandan Panshikar (born 1963) is a Hindustani classical vocalist. He has received training in the Jaipur gharana
Panshikar was born in to a family of Sanskrit scholars and classical musicians. He is the son of the eminent Marathi stage actor and producer Prabhakar Panshikar.Panshikar's aptitude for music was recognized and fostered from an early age.He began his formal study of music in Mumbai at the age of eleven. He learned music from the late Pandit Vasantrao Kulkarni for six years.Later he took training from the doyen of Jaipur gharana, Kishori Amonkar over the next 17 years. During this time, Raghunandan also learned from Ms. Amonkar's mother, Mogubai Kurdikar, an early disciple of the founder of Jaipur-Atrauli gharana, Ustad Alladiya Khan.