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Pandit Bhimsen Gururaj Joshi ; February 4, 1922 –- January 24, 2011) was an Indian vocalist in the Hindustani classical tradition. A member of the Kirana Gharana (school), he is renowned for the khayal form of singing, as well as for his popular renditions of devotional music (bhajans and abhangs). He was the most recent recipient of the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian honour, awarded in 2008
Bhimsen Joshi was known for his powerful voice, amazing breath control, musical sensibility and grasp of the fundamentals, representing a subtle fusion of intelligence and passion that imparted life and excitement to his music. A classicist by training and temperament, Pandit Bhimsen Joshi was renowned for having evolved an approach that sought to achieve a balance between what may be termed as "traditional values and mass-culture tastes" and as such he went on to have supposedly the largest commercially recorded repertoire in Hindustani vocal music.
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Bharat Ratna Bhimsen Joshi passes away
Pune: Eminent Hindustani classical vocalist Pandit Bhimsen Joshi died of old age related ailments Monday morning at a hospital here, his doctor said. He was 88. A Bharat Ratna awardee, Joshi died at Pune’s Sahyadri Hospital at 8.05 a.m, his doctor Atul Joshi said.
Joshi, who would have turned a year older Feb 4, was rushed to the Sahyadri Hospital Dec 31. He was suffering from old age related ailments, including kidney problems, and had been admitted to the hospital’s intensive care unit.
The 88-year old Hindustani classical exponent was on ventilator and underwent periodic dialysis during the past 25 days.
“However, since Saturday evening, his condition deteriorated and he started sinking despite all our efforts. He breathed his last at 8.05 a.m.,” Atul Joshi told.
Close family members and relatives were present at his bedside when Pandit Joshi breathed his last. Pandit Joshi was conferred Bharat Ratna, the country’s highest civilian award, in 2008.
A practitioner of the Kirana gharana, Joshi was known for his mellifluous ‘khayals’ as well as for his popular renditions of devotional ‘abhangs’ and ‘bhajans’.