Question
Download Solution PDFWhich Indian musician performed ‘Raga For Peace’ at the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize Concert in Oslo?
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Detailed Solution
Download Solution PDFThe correct answer is Amjad Ali Khan.
Key Points
- After India's Kailash Satyarthi and Pakistan's Malala Yousafzai received the prestigious award, sarod master Amjad Ali Khan and his sons Amaan and Ayaan gave a performance at the Nobel Peace Prize Concert. With a special "Raga For Peace" written for the occasion, the group promoted a message of peace, harmony, and nonviolence.
- After the congratulatory remarks for Malala and Satyarthi, Amjad Ali, Amaan, and Ayaan ascended the stage to perform their "Raga for Peace."
- Peace Through RAGA: It is a subsidiary of the Russia & America Goodwill Association (RAGA.org), a group that unites Russians and Americans for friendship and peace. All official Soviet and pro-Soviet "friendship associations," including The National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, ceased to exist when the USSR fell at the end of 1991 (NCASF).
Additional Information
- Bahadur Khan
- Bengali Ustad Bahadur Khan was born in Shibpur, Brahmanbaria, Bangladesh, on January 19, 1931. (then British India). He came from a musical background and was linked to sitarist Pandit Ravi Shankar.
- He was the son of Indian classical musician Ayet Ali Khan. Before he ultimately settled in Calcutta, Khan first learned how to play the sarod from his father and his uncle Alauddin Khan in Maihar. In the future, he worked alongside his relatives Ali Akbar Khan and Shrimati Annapurna Devi after also honing his vocal music skills.
- Buddhadev Das Gupta
- Buddhadeb Dasgupta was the third of nine siblings and was born in a Vaidya family in 1944 in Anara, a town close to Puruliya in southern West Bengal.
Buddhadeb began his teaching career as an economics instructor at the University of Burdwan's Shyamsundar College before moving on to City College in Calcutta. He started making films in 1976 after becoming frustrated with the disconnect he saw between the socio-political reality and the economic theory he was teaching.
- Buddhadeb Dasgupta was the third of nine siblings and was born in a Vaidya family in 1944 in Anara, a town close to Puruliya in southern West Bengal.
- Satyaki Banerjee
- Indian Bengali composer Satyaki Banerjee hails from India. He is a member of a London- and Kolkata-based Anglo-Bengali band. He performs using both classical and folk styles and plays instruments such as the sarod and dotara. He trained under Pandit Tejendra Narayan Majumdar after studying the sarod with the late Pandit Dipak Chowdhury.
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