November

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PANDIT CHHANNULAL MISHRA
MOST GIFTED CLASSICAL
VOCALISTS OF INDIA
ART & CULTURE
Pt. Chhannulal Mishra has been
blessed with an extraordinary
musical fluidity. He wears his
natural genius easily, displaying
easy mastery over rhythm and
melody, any listener at a Pandit ji
concert is dazzled at, the majestic
ease with which he renders musical
sequences without any obvious
effort or deliberation.
Pandit Chhannulal Mishra is one
of the greatest and most gifted
classical vocalists of India. He
can be reckoned among the
all time great vocalists to hail from
the ancient city of Varanasi, playing
on the ‘Swarmandal’ Pandit Mishra
holds his audience spell-bound with
his mellifluous rendition. He has the
distinction of being a Versatile Vocalist,
equally proficient in classical and light
classical music such as Khayal, Dadra,
Thumri, Chaiti, Kajri, Sawani, Holi and
Bhajan.
Pt. Chhannulal Mishra was born on
the third of August 1936. He had his
first lessons of classical music from the
Late Pt. Badri Prasad Mishra, his father,
Having been initiated into the nuances
of music by his father, he moved from
his place of birth( Village Hariharpur in
district Azamgarh, Uttar Pradesh), to
learn music at the feet of Ustad Abdul
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