Padma Bhushan Kishori Amonkar
Padma Bhushan Kishori Amonikar is a celebrated singer of Hindustani classical music from the Jaipur attrauli gharana. She is a woman who has had the courage of her conviction and has remained true of her music. She did not let herself be suppressed by the strict rules to her gharana. Nor was she tempted into selling her talent by catering to the lowest common denominator.
“Music is my destiny”, says the sprightly seventy years old. “I can’t remember starting to learn music. I learned it in my mother’s womb.” Her mother Mrs. Mogubai kurdikar, a musician if high caliber also won the Padma Bhushan.
Listen to her talk about music and even the most non-musically inclined will understand the passion and depth of her involvement. “music is a medium, not the end. I believe in ‘sadhana’. There is a definite difference between practice and ‘sadhana.
Practice is just mugging up, getting yourself habituated to the subject. But in ‘sadhana’ you concentrate and meditate upon one single phrase and sing it. When you forget yourself, you reach into timelessness. You forget yourself and what Saya,is ultimate peace. And the name of that peace is Brahma, Vishnu, Mahesh, Zowaster, Christ Allah, etc. music is bliss”.
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