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Birth name
  
Samta Prasad Mishra

Role
  
Musician

Also known as
  
Gudai Maharaj

Died
  
1994, Pune

Instruments
  
Tabla

Name
  
Samta Prasad


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Born
  
20 July 1921 (
1921-07-20
)

Awards
  
Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for Hindustani Music - Instrumental (Tabla)

Similar People
  
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Pandit Samta Prasad (20 July 1921 – 1994) was an Indian classical musician and tabla player from the Benares gharana. He played tabla in many Hindi films including, Meri Surat Teri Ankhen (1963) and Sholay (1975), and film music composer Rahul Dev Burman was one of his disciples.

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He was the son of Pandit Hari Sunder, also known as Bacha Mishra, his grandfather was Pt. Jagannath Mishra, and his ancestors included Pt. Pratap Maharaj, also known as Gudai Maharaj.

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He was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1979, given by the Sangeet Natak Akademi, India's National Academy of Music, Dance & Drama and the Padma Bhushan, the third highest civilian honour given by Govt. of India in 1991.

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Early life and training

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Pandit Samta Prasad was born on 20 July 1921, in Kabir chaura, Banaras (Varanasi), Uttar Pradesh into a family steeped in the tradition of tabla and pakhawaj of Benaras gharana, sometimes referred as Poorab baaj school.

His preliminary taalim (training) began with his father, who died when Samta was seven. Thereafter, he took the discipleship of Pt. Bikku Maharaj, himself a disciple of Pt. Baldev Sahai, and began to practise for long hours daily.

Career

Samta Prasad gave his first major performance at the "Allahabad Sangeet Sammelan" in 1942, where he impressed the musicians present there, and soon established himself as an accompanist as well as a soloist.

Throughout his career, he performed in various parts of India, such as Kolkata, Mumbai, Chennai and Lucknow. He also represented the Indian cultural team while abroad, in such places as France, Russia and Edinburgh. He has performed many times with the renowned sarode player Abanindra Maitra.

He also played the tabla in Hindi films like, Jhanak Jhanak Payal Baje, Meri Surat Teri Ankhen, Basant Bahar, Asamapta and Sholay. It is believed that music director, S.D. Burman postponed the recording of the song, "Nache mora manwa magan tikta dhighi dhighi" being sung by Mohd. Rafi in the film Meri Surat Teri Aakhen until the arrival of Pandit Samta Prasad from Banaras.

He died in May 1994 in Pune, India. He was on a visit to Pune to conduct a coaching workshop organised by Naad Roop. The workshop was a success, but Panditji's unexpected demise left a permanent scar on the minds of those who attended the workshop.

Awards and recognitions

He was awarded "Padma Shri" in the year 1972, and received the "Sangeet Natak Akademi Award" in 1979 and the President Scholarship in 1987. He achieved the Padma Bhushan in 1991.

Disciples

Amongst his noted disciples are Pandit Bhola Prasad Singh,Patna, Pandit Shashanka Shekhar Bakshi, Nitin Chatterjee, Naba Kumar Panda, Rahul Dev Burman (R.D.Burman), Gurmit Singh Virdee, Partha Sarathi Mukherjee, Satyanarayan Bashisht,Late Pandit Chandrakant Kamat and Pt.Samta Prasad son, Pandit Kumar Lal Mishra, now a noted tabla player himself.

References

Samta Prasad Wikipedia


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