Shobha Gurtu

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Born Bhanumati Shirodkar, in Belgaum, (present Karnataka) in 1925, she was first trained by her mother Menekabai Shirodkar, a professional dancer, and a 'gayaki' disciple of Ustad Alladiya Khan of the Jaipur-Atrauli gharana Though her formal music training began with ‘Ustad Bhurji Khan’, the youngest son of Ustad Alladiya Khan, the founder of the Jaipur-Atrauli gharana in Kolhapur, from whom her mother was learning at the time, while she was still a younger girl, and seeing her talent, Ustad Bhurji Khan’s family immediately took a liking of her, and she started spending long hours with them. Her ties with the Jaipur-Atrauli gharana were to strengthen still, when she started learning from, Ustad Alladiya Khan’s nephew Ustad Natthan Khan; though she really came into her own under the tutelage of Ustad Ghamman Khan, who came stay with their family in Mumbai, to teach her mother thumri-dadra and other semi-classical forms Shobha Gurtu specialized in semi classical forms as thumri, dadra, Kajri, Hori etc, effortlessly adding pure classical passages into her singing, thus creating a new form, and reviving the magic of forms like, Thumri, of which she became a greatest exponent in time. She was particularly influenced by singer Begum Akhtar and Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan She also gave music in Marathi and Hindi cinema As a playback singer, she first worked in Kamaal Amrohi’s film, Pakeezah (1972) followed by Phagun (1973), where she sang, ‘Bedardi ban gaye koi jaao manaao more sa

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Hari Ke Goon Gavo

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Songs Of The Seasons - Shobha Gurtu - Volume 2

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Chhod Gaya Sajan Mera

The Genius Of Shobha Gurtu

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Shringar, Vol. 2

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Golden Raaga Collection 1

At Her Creative Best

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50 Glorious Classical Years

Shobha Gurtu

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80 Minutes of Indian Classical Music

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Shringar: The Many Moods of Love - Volume 2

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Rare Ragas Vol. 7

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