{"id":21883,"date":"2020-08-18T18:58:49","date_gmt":"2020-08-18T09:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2020\/aug\/18\/pandit-jasraj-tributes-paid-to-incomparable-genius-of-indian-classical-music"},"modified":"2020-08-18T18:58:49","modified_gmt":"2020-08-18T09:58:49","slug":"pandit-jasraj-tributes-paid-to-incomparable-genius-of-indian-classical-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=21883","title":{"rendered":"Pandit Jasraj: tributes paid to &#8216;incomparable genius&#8217; of Indian classical music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Narendra Modi said the death of Jasraj, aged 90, leaves \u2018a deep void in the Indian cultural sphere\u2019. Here, his students remember a man who lived inside music<\/p>\n<p>The Indian classical vocalist Pandit Jasraj has died at the age of 90, a man described by one of his senior disciples, Sanjeev Abhyankar, as \u201can incomparable genius, the kind born once in a century\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Indian prime minister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/narendra-modi\">Narendra Modi<\/a> was among those paying tribute to this hero of his country\u2019s music, saying his death leaves \u201ca deep void in the Indian cultural sphere\u201d. Known for his unique voice which had both depth and softness, Pandit Jasraj was one of a handful of remaining old school musical giants of the Indian classical world, alongside artists like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2011\/jan\/26\/bhimsen-joshi-obituary\">Bhimsen Joshi<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2017\/apr\/12\/kishori-amonkar-obituary\">Kishori Amonkar<\/a>. Incredibly, he was performing and teaching online until the end with a remarkably robust, age-defying voice. In the words of Oscar-winning composer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2010\/apr\/01\/ar-rahman-slumdog-millionaire\">AR Rahman<\/a>, \u201cIndia has lost one of its finest stars.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2020\/aug\/18\/pandit-jasraj-tributes-paid-to-incomparable-genius-of-indian-classical-music\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Narendra Modi said the death of Jasraj, aged 90, leaves \u2018a deep void in the Indian cultural sphere\u2019. Here, his students remember a man who lived inside musicThe Indian classical vocalist Pandit Jasraj has died at the age of 90, a man described by one o&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1516,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,71,1636,62,425,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-classical-music","category-culture","category-folk-music","category-india","category-music","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1516"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21884,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21883\/revisions\/21884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}