Ram Narayan Passed Away: Famous Sarangi player ram narayan dies at the age of 96, made a mark worldwide.
Famous Sarangi player ram narayan has passed away. He died at the age of 96. The late player is often known as Pandit. Indian musician Sarangi player ram narayan has died at the age of 96. Sadly, another star of the music world has gone down from the bollywood industry. It is not known when and at what time he died.
Ram Narayan was born on 25 december 1927 in Amer village near udaipur in northwestern India. His great-grandfather Bagaji Biyavat was a singer from Amer. According to media reports, ram narayan and his great-grandfather Sagad Danji Biyavat used to sing in the court of the Maharana of Udaipur. He was known as Pandit.
Ram Narayan was an indian musician who popularized the sarangi as a solo musical instrument in Hindustani classical music and became the first successful sarangi player internationally. His grandfather Har Lalji Biyavat and father Nathuji Biyavat were farmers and singers, Nathuji played the bowed instrument dilruba and Narayan's mother was a music lover.
The late musician ram Narayan's first language was Rajasthani and he learned hindi and later English. At the age of about six, he found a small sarangi left by the family's ganga Guru, a genealogist, and was taught a fingering technique developed by his father. Narayan's father taught him, and later Biyavat sought out jaipur sarangi player Mehboob Khan to teach sarangi to his son.
He studied intensively under sarangi players and singers and worked as a music teacher and successful musician in his teens. He was employed by All india Radio, Lahore, as a musician for singers in 1944. He moved to delhi after the partition of india in 1947, but desiring to move beyond music and frustrated with his supporting role, Narayan moved to mumbai in 1949 to work in indian cinema.
The late musician became a concert solo artist in 1956 and has since performed at many of India's major music festivals. He recorded several albums and made his first international tour to the US and europe in 1964 with his elder brother Chatur Lal, who was a tabla player and had toured with shankar in the 1950s. Narayan also taught indian and foreign students and performed frequently outside india in the 2000s. He was awarded the Padma Vibhushan, India's second-highest civilian honor, in 2005.
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