Annapurna Devi

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Annapurna Devi (Devanāgarī: अन्नपूर्णा देवी) (Roshanara Khan, Maihar, India, 23 April 1926 - 13 October 2018) was an Indian surbahar (bass sitar) maestro of Hindustani Classical Music. Family and early life Annapurna Devi represents a family of great tradition of Indian classical music. Her father and guru Ustad Alauddin Khan, founder of the "Senia Maihar Gharana" or "Senia Maihar School" of Indian classical music, was considered a singular phenomenon in the twentieth century Indian classical music. Her uncles Fakir Aftabuddin Khan and Ustad Ayet Ali Khan were revered musicians at their native place Shibpur in Bangladesh. Her brother Ustad Ali Akbar Khan is considered by many as one of the greatest Sarod maestros. Her former husband Sitarist Pandit Ravi Shankar is perhaps the most well-known Indian classical musician abroad. Annapurna Devi was born in 1926 at Maihar, a small princely state of British India, (now a part of Madhya Pradesh state of India) , where her revered father Ustad Alauddin Khan was a royal court musician at that time. But, her family has their ancestry in the village of Shibpur in the then British India, present Bangladesh. Annapurna Devi grew up in Maihar as Roshanara Khan. She was one of the daughters (Jahanara, Sharija, Roshanara) of Ustad Alauddin Khan. Sharija died an early death suffering from diseases in her childhood. When Alauddin's other daughter, Jahanara, got married, and a jealous mother-in-law burnt her Tanpura, Alauddin Khan decided not

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Debut Surbahar Recital (New Delhi, 1950)

Debut Surbahar Recital

Raga Kaunsi Kanada / Raga Manjh Khamaj / Raga Yaman Kalyan

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Annapurna Devi - Various

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Annapurna Devi

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Raga Malkauns

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Raga Kaushi Kanada

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Raga Yaman Kalyan (1957 Sitar/Surbahar Duet)

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Annapurna Devi Collection

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Some rare Surbahar recordings from the 1950s

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Kaunsi Kanada / Manjh Khamaj

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Inde

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