Barun Kumar Pal is one of India's eminent and senior artistes. In the year 1972-73, he was the first artiste given an A Grade in Indian classical and light music on guitar by All India Radio.
Barun Kumar performed at age 6 in front of Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first Prime Minister. And since he was 6 years old, he has been performing as a solo player and taking part in the seniors’ national orchestras in concerts and on All India Radio.
Barun Kumar is one of the pioneers in introducing the Hawaiian slide guitar in the world of Indian classical music. By adding sympathetic strings (as far back as 1971), changing the tuning method and techniques of playing, he improvised the Hawaiian guitar into a complete Indian Instrument suitable for rendering Indian ragas.
His unique blending of the sitar and veena playing styles is remarkable and has created a firm position in the traditional Tantrakari Baaz (instrumental style) of Indian classical music. The Gayaki-ang (vocal style) with emotional rendering is reflected in his playing of the ragas.

Artist : Pt Barun Kumar
Album : Sapphire
Raag : Pahadi
Tabla : Enayet Hussain



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