The last of the titans of Hindustani classical music, Pandit Bhimsen Joshi was a rare genius who could transcend the mundane and transport his audience to the sublime with his gifted voice that ...

Bhimsen Joshi, who has died aged 88, was the foremost classical vocalist in the Hindustani tradition. A master of nuance, with great technical expertise in the manipulation of intricate note and ...

A shocked Indian music fraternity today mourned the death of legendary vocalist Pandit Bhimsen Joshi hailing him as a modern day Tansen and a 'Kohinoor' of Hindustani classical music who strode like a ...

Bhimsen Joshi is the first Hindustani classical vocalist to bag the Bharat Ratna. And he is the most deserving awardee too. Bhimsen Joshi is truly a singer with a pan-Indian appeal. One rarely comes ...

“An artist of the stature of Bhimsen Joshi is born only once in a few centuries,’’ Pandit Ganapati Bhat Hasanagi said in Belagavi on Sunday. “His craft was unmatched. His dedication to art and his ...

The birth centenary year of Pt. Bhimsen Joshi is a reminder of a life lived with and for music. Woven into the story of an ordinary young boy, who emerged as an extraordinary musician of the 20th ...

In 2009, Mohan Nadkarni, Pandit Bhimsen Joshi's biographer, wrote exclusively for rediff.com recalling his long association with the legend. We re-publish the feature. It is rare that a biography of ...

For many, he was Hindustani classical music. Even those who did not understand the masterly sweep of his Miyan ki Malhar knew kirana gharana maestro Pandit Bhimsen Joshi. For many, he was the ...

On the 89th birth anniversary of legend Bhimsen Joshi, eminent singers will take to the stage and will pay a musical tribute to the classical guru. On the 89th birth anniversary of legend Bhimsen ...

Seldom does it happen that a voice almost epitomises the conventional image of a raag. But Kirana gharana maestro Bhimsen Joshi’s stentorian voice almost gives a sonic shape to the austere and ...

So who can be described as the voice of India? Arguably it would have to be Lata Mangeshkar and M.S. Subbulakshmi. At least 70 percent Indians would have loved their voice and their singing. In the ...

MUSIC seemed to require him to use every part of his body. From a slow, mesmerised, almost motionless start his eyes would roll upwards, foreshadowing the ascent of the notes that emerged from his ...