Musicians
- Ustad Bismillah Khan, Shehnai maestro, awarded the Bharat Ratna, (2001)
- Pandit Ravi Shankar, classical Sitar player, awarded the Bharat Ratna in 1999. He has also won three Grammy awards
- Begum Akhtar, Ghazal singer
- Naushad, music director, was awarded the Dadasaheb Phalke Award for his contributions to Indian cinema.
- Sir Cliff Richard, the English singer
- Kishan Maharaj, Tabla Maestro
- Hari Prasad Chaurasia, bansuri player
- Dr.Lalmani Misra was an Indian classical musician. Dean & Head, Faculty of Music and Fine Arts, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi and his son
- Dr. Gopal Shankar Misra, Vichitra Veena player
- Pandit Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande, musician
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“We stand in the tumult of a festival.
What festival? This loud, disordered mooch?
These hospitaliers? These brute-like guests?
These musicians dubbing at a tragedy,
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That there are no lines to speak? There is no play.”
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