Shanno Khurana

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Shanno Khurana
Born (1927-12-23) 23 December 1927 (age 96)
Jodhpur, Rajasthan
GenresHindustani classical
Occupation(s)singer, composer
Years active(1940s –present)
President Kalam presenting Padma Bhushan to Shanno Khurana, for her contribution in Hindustani Music

Shanno Khurana (born 23 December 1927) is a noted Indian classical vocalist and composer, from the

Kairagarh University, and has undertakes extensive research on folk music of Rajasthan
.

She was awarded the

Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship, the highest honour in the performing arts conferred by the Sangeet Natak Akademi
, India's National Academy for Music, Dance and Drama. She has said in an interview that she wishes to live till 100 and become a centenarian.

Early life and training

Khurana was born and brought up in a

Punjabi family in Jodhpur, Rajasthan.[2][3] Her family was mostly non-musicians, consisting of doctors, engineers, and people working in foreign services. But her interest in music grew in her early years, when she saw her brother learning from musicologist and vocalist Pandit Raghunath Rao Musalgaonkar, a disciple and nephew of Raja Bhaiya Poonchwale of Gwalior gharana. Her conservative family didn't allow girls to learn music, but when her father saw her listening intently to classical music on radio, he allowed her to start her musical training at age 12 under Musalgaonkar.[4][5]

Career

Khurana was married at age 18, to a dentist with the Indian Air Force and shifted to Lahore, though she continued singing at All India Radio (AIR), Lahore, starting in 1945.[6] After partition of India, her family had to shift to Delhi, where her husband left Air Force and started his private practice. However, at the insistence of her husband, she started her riyaz once again, despite having two young children and an ailing mother-in-law. She practised with tabla maestro Pandit Chatur Lal, which continued for the following 16 years, and soon singing on radio as well. Meanwhile, Nirmala Joshi, who was secretary of the Sangeet Natak Akademi at the time, invited her to teach classical music at her music school, Sangeet Bharati at Mandi House in Delhi.[4][7][8]

Subsequently, she was introduced to her next teacher via her husband, when musicologist and chief producer at AIR, Delhi,

khayal, tarana, thumri, dadra, chaiti and bhajan, besides tappas and jangra, a folk form of Rajasthan.[3][10] Over the years, she has been involving in not just research and documentation of aprachalit ragas (uncommon ragas), but also promoting them through music festivals and lecdem series.[4][7] Her organisation, Geetika, organises music festivals for women, and tala vadya kutcheri, an all-woman music festival, Bhairav se Sohni, held in 1983 and all-woman festival on aprachalit raags held in 1996.[8][11][12]

Over the years she composed directed and sung five full-length musicals, experimenting both with classical music as well as folk music styles.

Bhai Vir Singh in 1979.[5] In 2006, her music album of genre of tappas, titled Sufi Raah was released by Parzor Foundation.[3][13]

Awards

Khurana was awarded the

Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship, the highest honour in the performing arts conferred by the Sangeet Natak Akademi, India's National Academy for Music, Dance and Drama [15][16] and was later made a board member of the Sangeet Natak Akademi.[8]

Works

  • Rajasthan Ka Loksangeet (Folk Music of Rajasthan), Siddhartha Publication. 1995.
  • Forms and Variation in Rajasthani Folk Songs, Sangeet Natak: Journal of Sangeet Natak Akademi 20. 1969. pp. 74–85

References

  1. ^ "Padma Awards" (PDF). Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. 2015. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
  2. ^ "Shanno Khurama". gharanfestival. Retrieved 29 May 2013.
  3. ^ a b c "Tapping tappas". The Hindu. 16 January 2006. Archived from the original on 9 October 2013. Retrieved 29 May 2013.
  4. ^ a b c Manjari Sinha (20 July 2007). "It's raining ragas". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 6 November 2012.
  5. ^ a b "An evening of classical music". The Hindu. 20 August 2005. Archived from the original on 4 September 2006. Retrieved 29 May 2013.
  6. ^ a b c d Sangeet Natak Akademi (1969). "Dr. Shanno Khurana". Sangeet Natak (11–14). Sangeet Natak Akademi: 74, 86.
  7. ^ a b "Upon the sands of time". The Hindu. 23 September 2005. Archived from the original on 28 November 2007. Retrieved 29 May 2013.
  8. ^ a b c Gowri Ramnarayan (17 April 2009). "Finding her own voice". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 21 April 2009. Retrieved 30 May 2013.
  9. ^ Mukherji, p. 134
  10. ^ Manjari Sinha (12 September 2008). "A beautiful blend". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 15 September 2008. Retrieved 4 June 2013.
  11. ^ Sharma, p. 56
  12. ^ a b c "A taste for challenges". The Hindu. 5 May 2007. Archived from the original on 22 May 2007. Retrieved 4 June 2013.
  13. ^ George Henry Hubert Lascelles (1972). Opera, Volume 23. Rolls House Publishing Company. p. 846.
  14. ^ "Padma Awards Directory (1954–2009)" (PDF). Ministry of Home Affairs. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 May 2013.
  15. ^ "Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowships and Akademi Awards 2012" (PDF). Press Information Bureau, Govt. of India. Retrieved 28 May 2012.
  16. ^ "SNA: List of Akademi Fellows". Sangeet Natak Akademi Official website. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016.

Bibliography

External links
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