Padmavati Shaligram

Padmavati Shaligram Gokhale was a Hindustani music vocalist, instrumentalist, and music educator. Padmavati Shaligram was born in Kolhapur, Maharashtra. She started learning vocal music from her uncle Govind-buwa Shaligram. Under her married name Padmavati Gokhale, she performed all over Hindustan before partition. Her gayaki had the traditional elements of the Jaipur-Atrauli gharana with the swar–lagav which was influenced by the Kirana gharana. Padmavatitai was also a teacher and trained numerous disciples. Some of them are Kedar Naphade, Shubhada Paradkar, Sunita Tikare, Anita Sundararajan, Geeta Javdekar, and others. Her style bears distinctive gayaki of Alladiya Khan's style. ITC SRA rediscovered Padmavati Shaligram for the Kolkata audience after decades, on the platinum jubilee year of her singing career in November 2005. She received "Sangeet Natak Academy Award" in 1988 by Govt. of India. she is also the recipient of, Kalidas Samman in 1994–95, Award from Akhil Bharatiya Gandharva Mahavidyalaya Mandal. Padmavati Shaligram Gokhale presented two compositions set to Teentaal in Shuddha Sarang without using Madhyams. Gokhale contributed to the acceptance and respect of Thumri. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Padmava...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...)