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Artist
Kiran Ahluwalia
12+ albums
Indianfemale vocalistsGhazalworldindia
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It took many years for Kiran Ahluwalia to find one of the last living masters of ghazal, a form of sung poetry that dates back to 14th century India. When she met Vithal Rao, her teacher and the last living court musician of the king of Hyderabad, she was exposed to a bygone era, a time before Indian independence when princes and kings employed court musicians to put music to ghazal poetry. In a twist of fate, Kiran is now a bridge to this colorful past and has emerged as one of the most preeminent composers of contemporary ghazals. Because there is such a vast repertoire of this music today, there are very few ghazal composers. Singers usually stick to the true classics. But Kiran has long been on a path to mastery so that she could one day compose for the sensual and highly literary poetic form. She started her training as a young girl. “When I was growing up in India, very few people had recordings of any kind,” Kiran recalls. “We would listen to the radio, and when a song came on that I wanted to learn, my mother would quickly write down the lyrics for me.” Kiran studied Indian music from the time she was seven, first in India and then in Canada where she immigrated with her parents. She learned music part time alongside high school and university studies. After finishing her university degree in Toronto, she decided to go back to India to further pursue ghazal and Indian music on a full time basis. Her parents were dismayed. “Doors were slammed and tears were
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