1. Annapurna Devi (1927)

Indian Musician

Sitar player of Hindustani classical music and the daughter of the founder of Maihar gharana. In 1991, she was given the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award, the highest award given to artists...

2. Vilayat Khan (1928)

Indian Musician

One of India's preeminent sitarists, he was the recipient of the Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan awards for his contribution to society.

3. Bally Sagoo (1964)

Indian Musician

British-Indian record producer who launched the label Ishq Records and was responsible for tracks like "Chura Liya" and "Tum Bin Jiya."

4. Anupam Roy (1982)

Indian Musician

Lyricist and composer who is widely known for his 2010 breakout single "Amake Amar Moto Thakte Dao," which appeared on the soundtrack for the film Autograph. In 2015, he won...

5. Amjad Ali Khan (1945)

Indian Musician

Musician who has become one of India's most famous players of sarod, a relative of the sitar. He has performed with high-profile groups like the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra and received many...

6. Kadri Gopalnath (1949)

Indian Musician

Carnatic music pioneer and award-winning saxophonist. He was awarded the Padma Shri, a high civilian award, in 2004.

7. Trilok Gurtu (1951)

Indian Musician

Drummer who has played in a variety of genres, including jazz fusion and world music.

8. Shashank Subramanyam (1978)

Indian Musician

Grammy Award-nominated flautist who is known for playing the bamboo flute. He has received many awards and honors, including The National Integration Award of the Spirit of Unity series.

9. Garry Sandhu (1984)

Indian Musician

Popular Bhangra singer and songwriter in the UK who had hits including "Ik Gal" and "One Touch." He also owns his own record label, Fresh Media Records, as well as...

10. Yuvan Shankar Raja (1979)

Indian Musician

Award-winning Tamil and Telugu film composer who focused on creating unique and interesting soundtracks and scores.

11. Sohail Sen (1984)

Indian Musician

Prominent Bollywood film composer best known for his work in films like "What's Your Raashee?" from 2009.

12. Anuradha Sriram (1970)

Indian Musician

Known for her playback vocal performances in numerous Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, and Telugu films, this Indian folk and carnatic singer was the recipient of Filmfare Awards South and Karnataka...

13. Cassius Khan (1974)

Indian Musician

Cassius Khan is an Indian classical musician known for playing the Tabla and Ghazal while singing and is the only professional performing artist in the world who does so.

14. Benny Prasad (1975)

Indian Musician

Benny Prasad is an instrumental guitarist from India. He designed the Bentar which is the World's First Bongo Guitar. He also holds the World Record for being the fastest man...

15. Mruthyunjay C Doddawad (1975)

Indian Musician

Mruthyunjay Doddawad is the founder of Sangeetha Dhama music academy. He is well known as a light music director and singer.

16. Stephen Devassy (1981)

Indian Musician

17. Begum Akhtar (1914)

Indian Musician

Akhtari Bai Faizabadi also known as Begum Akhtar was a well known Indian singer of Ghazal Dadra and Thumri. She received the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for vocal music and...

18. Rehan Khan (1983)

Indian Musician

Rehan Khan is an Indian singer who in February 2007 won Fame X an Indian music competition broadcast on SAB TV. Besides a solo singing career he is a member...

19. M. L. Vasanthakumari (1928)

Indian Musician

Madras Lalitangi Vasanthakumari was a Carnatic musician and playback singer for film songs in many Indian languages. MLV and her contemporaries D. K. Pattammal and M. S. Subbulakshmi were...

20. T. N. Krishnan (1928)

Indian Musician

Trippunithura Narayana Krishnan is a Carnatic music violinist.

21. Jaspreet 'Jazim' Sharma (1990)

Indian Musician

Jaspreet 'Jazim' Sharma is an Indian ghazal singer. He is a gold-medallist at the national level in Thumri and Ghazal. He has been inspired by the ghazal singer Ghulam Ali...

22. R. D. Burman (1939)

Indian Musician

Rahul Dev Burman was an Indian film score composer who is considered one of the seminal music directors of the Indian film industry. Nicknamed Pancham da he was the only...

23. Vipin Patwa (1982)

Indian Musician

Vipin Patwa is a music director and composer who composes music for Bollywood. He is one of the emerging music directors of Hindi films for the present generation.

24. Peruvanam Kuttan Marar (1953)

Indian Musician

Peruvanam Kuttan Marar is a chenda artist. He leads several popular traditional orchestra performances in Kerala. He is a recipient of Padma Shri award in the year 2011 for his...

25. Lorna Cordeiro (1946)

Indian Musician

Lorna Cordeiro popularly known as Lorna is a Konkani language singer and tiatrist from the state of Goa India.

26. Drums Kumaran (1997)

Indian Musician

Drums Kumaran from Chennai Tamil Nadu India is the youngest drummer who holds a drumming record. He began his drumming at the age of 6. He scored 92% and stood...

27. Purbayan Chatterjee (1976)

Indian Musician

Purbayan Chatterjee is an Indian sitar player and composer who lives in Kolkata India. He is noted for amalgamating traditional Indian classical music with contemporary world music genres.

28. Bharati Vaishampayan (Unknow)

Indian Musician

Dr. Bharati Vaishampayan is a Hindustani Classical Vocalist of the Jaipur-Atrauli gharana and the current Dean and Head of Department of Music at Shivaji University.

29. Shyam Kane (1954)

Indian Musician

Pandit Shyam Kane is an Indian Tabla player of the Punjab Gharana. Pt. Kane is most recognized for being the first and foremost disciple and colleague of Utd. Zakir Hussain.

30. Sivamani (Unknow)

Indian Musician

Anandan Sivamani popularly known as Sivamani is a percussionist based in India. He plays many instruments including drums octoban darbuka udukai and kanjira. He performed drumming during the IPL Championships...

31. E. Gayathri (1959)

Indian Musician

Echampati Gayathri popularly known as Veena Gayathri is a veena exponent of the traditional Carnatic music. She was appointed by the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu J. Jayalalithaa as the...

32. Madurai Sundar (1959)

Indian Musician

Madurai Ramaswamy Sundar is a noted Carnatic musician.

33. Bhimrao Panchale (1951)

Indian Musician

Bhimrao Panchale is noted Marathi poet and Ghazal singer from the state of Maharashtra India. He is known as Ghazal Nawaz for his exposition of the ghazal form of poetry...

34. Srirangam Kannan (1952)

Indian Musician

Srirangam Kannan is an Indian musician and artist known for playing the morsing. He has a degree in mathematics.

35. Nayan Ghosh (1956)

Indian Musician

Pandit Nayan Ghosh is an Indian tabla and sitar player.

36. Thiruvarur Bakthavathsalam (1956)

Indian Musician

Thiruvaarur Bakthavathsalam is a Mridanga Vidwan from a family of traditional musicians in the Tanjore district of Tamilnadu India. He is currently staying in Chennai. Bakthavathsalam had his initial...

37. G. J. R. Krishnan (1960)

Indian Musician

'Lalgudi' G. J. R. Krishnan is a well-known Carnatic violinist vocalist and composer.

38. Rajendra Prasanna (1956)

Indian Musician

Rajendra Prasanna Urdu: راجندر پرسننا‎; born 15 April 1956) is an exponent of Bansuri and Shehnai of India.

39. Amyt Datta (1960)

Indian Musician

Amyt Datta is a guitarist composer and producer from Kolkata. He is also a session musician teacher and mentor. Datta who commands a sort of demigod status with guitar fans...

40. Ragini Trivedi (1960)

Indian Musician

Ragini Trivedi is Indian classical musician performing on vichitra veena sitar and jal tarang. Daughter of the vichitra veena virtuoso Lalmani Misra she is an exponent of Misrabani and is...

41. Shripad Hegde (Unknow)

Indian Musician

Pandit Shripad Hegde is an Hindustani Classical Vocalist who hails from Kampli of Uttara Kannada District is on the staff of All India Radio Dharwad since 1987.

42. Debasis Chakroborty (1961)

Indian Musician

Debasis Chakroborty is an Indian classical slide guitar player who belongs to the Senia-Maihar Gharana. Chakroborty was born in Calcutta India and was groomed in the atmosphere of music from...

43. D. Imman (1983)

Indian Musician

D. Imman is an Indian film composer and singer of film music predominantly working in the Tamil film industry. He did his schooling in Don Bosco Egmore Chennai and college...

44. Ritesh Das (1957)

Indian Musician

Ritesh Das is a tabla player who has been teaching and composing music since the early 1970s. He is the founder and artistic director of the critically acclaimed Toronto Tabla...

45. Kudamaloor Janardanan (1969)

Indian Musician

Kudamaloor Janardanan is an Indian flautist of the Carnatic music tradition.

46. Ghatam Udupa (1980)

Indian Musician

Ghatam Giridhar Udupa is a ghatam player from India. He is the son of Mridangam Vidwan Vidwan Ullur Nagendra Udupa who taught him such instruments as Mridangam Kanjira and...

47. Vedanth Bharadwaj (1980)

Indian Musician

Vedanth Bharadhwaj is a vocalist and composer born in Mumbai India. He is a qualified guitarist from the Trinity College London and is best known for his work with songs...

48. Patri Satish Kumar (1970)

Indian Musician

Patri Satish Kumar is an Indian Carnatic musician and player of the mridangam. He is considered a stalwart in his field.

49. Anil Srinivasan (1977)

Indian Musician

Anil Srinivasan is a classical pianist born in Chennai India and educated at the University of Southern California and at Columbia University New York. He is best known for his...

50. Sharat Chandra Srivastava (1971)

Indian Musician

Sharat Chandra Srivastava is a North Indian classical violinist of the Senia gharana.