Lakshmi Shankar & Nirmala Devi
Lakshmi Shankar & Nirmala Devi
Genres: hindustani, vocals, indian classical
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About Lakshmi Shankar & Nirmala Devi
Lakshmi Shankar is a Hindustani classical vocalist of the Patiala Gharana. She is known for her performances of khyal, thumri, and bhajans. Born in 1926, Lakshmi started her career in dancing. In 1939, when Uday Shankar brought his dance troupe to Madras, (recently renamed Chennai), she joined the Almora Centre to learn Uday Shankar’s dance style based on the Indian classics, and became a part of his troupe. She later married Uday Shankar's brother, Rajendra (with nickname Raju). During a period of illness, Lakshmi had to give up dancing, and already having had a background of Carnatic music, she undertook learning Hindustani classical music for many years under Ustad Abdul Rehman Khan. Later, she also trained with Ravi Shankar, the sitar maestro. Lakshmi has shown her versatility and adaptability by composing music for Bharatanatyam for the leading dance company Shakti School of Bharatanatyam located in Los Angeles. (Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakshmi_Shankar) ________________________ A Nirmala Devi as "singer" or "instrumentalist" for Indian Classical Music (same Hindustani (North Indian) or Carnatic (South Indian)) is not known; there exist a writer/editor, e.g. DICTIONARY OF MUSIC. by Nirmala Devi (see http://www.rectorpress.com/IndiaBooks.html). The Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi is a founder of the so called founder of Sahaja Yoga (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirmala_Srivastava) but does not correlate directly with Indian Classical Music or any other music style... Nirmala Devi Srivastava is wife of a United Nations diplomat, was born on March 21, 1923, in Chindawara, a small hill station near Nagpur, India. Although born into a Christian family, she has embraced the concept of the basic truth of all religions in a universal teaching, based on ancient Hindu concepts of kundalini, the latent power believed to reside in the human organism and to be an evolutionary force in nature. Kundalini operates as a psycho-physical force in human beings, as the dynamic of sexual activity and also, when properly aroused, as the mechanism of higher consciousness and Godrealization... http://www.answers.com/topic/nirmala-devi-srivastava
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