Staff Reporter, *An 'Evening of Sufi Music' on 16th* - Central Chronichle - IndiaTuesday, August 11, 2009
Bhopal: The Allama Iqbal Literary Section of Sahitya Academy is organising an 'Evening of Sufi Music' at Bharat Bhavan on August 16.
Sahitya Academy director Dr Degendra Deepak and Iqbal Literary Section in-charge Jhammu Chhugani in a joint press release said that 'A' grade singer of All India Radio Gwalior, Ms Neelima Sharma and 'A' grade singer of AIR Bhopal Ravi Pandey would sing gazals of Iqbal and other famous Urdu poets and Sufi songs.
Neelima Sharma has performed at National Gazal Festival, Delhi, and India Habitat Centre, Delhi. She had also sang several gazals at programmes in different parts of the country.
Ravi Pandey has so far released 140 albums of songs. He is a famous Sufi song singer. He has sung songs for Venus, Tips, Rajshree Music and Music India. He has sang gazals in a gazal album under music direction by Jagjit Singh.
He was a disciple of Pandit Nand Kishore Sharma in classical music. He has done Ph.D in classical music from Mauritius. Famous music director Zubin Mehta was his guide in Ph.D.
[Picture: Allama Sir Muhammad Iqbal (d. 1938) in 1899. Photo from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Iqbal]
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