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Gopal Shankar Misra
12+ albums
indian classicalIndianveenahindustani classicalvichitra veena
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Gopal Shankar Misra (born 1957 in Kanpur, died August 13, 1999 in Bhopal) was an Indian musician and music teacher, who played the vichitra veena. Inheriting Music Misra's father, Lalmani Misra, was born in the 1920s and became a singer and instrumentalist who performed dhrupad and khyal, and played the tabla, the sitar, and revived the vichitra veena in his advanced age. Lalmani Misra was a performing musician and an academic, who served as Dean of the Faculty of Performing Arts at Banaras Hindu University, where he worked as a teacher and administrator, until he his death in 1979. This shattered the 22-year-old Gopal, leaving him a huge challenge of work unfinished. The family eventually attained Gharana status when the third generation - Gopal and Padmaja's son and daughter, Gandharva and Shruti - began to excel at the veena. It was much later on that the Uday Shankar connection was to lead directly to this disc, when Gopal was invited to join the 1998 UK touring and Real World recording project made by State of Bengal and Ananda Shankar, Uday Shankar's son. Growing up Gopal was born in Kanpur, India in 1957. With the birth of a sister, Ragini, some years later, the authority of the eldest child crowned young Gopal. His grandmother, Rani Devi whose musical urge ran in the family, doted on him. His mother Padma, also showered love and care on both her children. Surrounded by and growing up with music, his interest deepened following an international tour with his fathe
