Malini Rajurkar (born 8 January 1941) is a
Hindustani classical singer of
Gwalior Gharana.
Early life
She grew up in the state of
Rajasthan
Rajasthan (; lit. 'Land of Kings') is a state in northern India. It covers or 10.4 per cent of India's total geographical area. It is the largest Indian state by area and the seventh largest by population. It is on India's northwestern s ...
in India. For three years she taught mathematics at the Savitri Girls’ High School & College, Ajmer, where she had graduated in the same subject. Taking advantage of a three-year scholarship that came her way, she finished her Sangeet Nipun from the Ajmer Music College, studying music under the guidance of Govindrao Rajurkar and his nephew, who was to become her future husband, Vasantrao Rajurkar.
Performing career
Malini has performed in major music festivals in India, including ''Gunidas Sammelan'' (Mumbai), ''
Tansen Samaroh
Tansen Samaroh or Tansen Sangeet Samaroh () is celebrated every year in the month of December in Behat village of Gwalior district, Madhya Pradesh. It is a 4-day musical extravaganza. Artists and music lovers from all over the world gather here to ...
'' (Gwalior), ''Sawai Gandharva Festival'' (Pune), and ''Shankar Lal Festival'' (Delhi).
Malini is noted especially for her command over the
Tappa Tappa is a form of Indian semi-classical vocal music. Its specialty is a rolling pace based on fast, subtle and knotty construction. Its tunes are melodious and sweet, and depict the emotional outbursts of a lover. Tappe (plural) were sung mostly by ...
and the
Tarana
''Tarana'' is a type of composition in Hindustani classical vocal music in which certain words (e.g. "odani", "todani", "tadeem" and "yalali") based on Persian and Arabic phonemes are rendered at a medium (''madhya laya'') or fast (''drut laya'' ...
genre. She has also sung lighter music. Her renditions of
Marathi ''natyageete,'' ''pandu-nrupati janak jaya'', ''naravar krishnasamaan'', ''ya bhavanatil geet purane'' have been particularly popular.
Awards
* Sangeet Natak Academy Award 2001
References
External links
Blog on Malinitai's recitals
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1941 births
Hindustani singers
Living people
Singers from Rajasthan
Gwalior gharana
Women Hindustani musicians
Indian women classical singers
20th-century Indian singers
20th-century Indian women singers
21st-century Indian women singers
21st-century Indian singers
Women musicians from Rajasthan
20th-century Khyal singers
Recipients of the Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship