Aparna Panshikar is an Indian classical (

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) vocalist living in

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Career

Panshikar's musical performances include pure

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and experimentation in combining north

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with various other genres. The systematic online training method she developed won her a lot of disciples across the globe. She performs with the band Trinaad consisting of

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Jayen Varma and

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Jean Davoisne.

Early life and family

Panshikar had an early introduction to north

. Her first guru is late Pandit Bhaskarbua Joshi and is currently training under her mother Meera Panshikar. She is married to Nikhil Joshi and has a son Sohum Bilawal Nikhil Joshi.

Albums

Panshikar has released ten musical albums which include: a

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with

Sudha Ragunathan Sudha Ragunathan is an Indian Carnatic vocalist, singer and composer. She was conferred the Kalaimamani award by the Government of Tamil Nadu in 1994, Padma Shri (2004) and Padma Bhushan (2015) by the Government of India, and Sangeetha Kala ...

released by

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in 1999; three titles released as "

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presents a Voice for the New Millennium" in 2000; Winds from Ayuta in 2002; Diamond Sutra and Punyapur ki Sarita in 2003; Shivoham in 2005; Reflections of a Purple Moon in 2012.; and Le Sortilège du Poisson by Trinaad in 2017.

Movies

Panshikar is also a film

music composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and defi ...

. Music for the English movie Orpheder the Legend produced in France in 2016 was composed by her. She has also composed/sung songs for two Indian short films: Muskaan in the year 2017 and Skin of marble in the year 2018 Skin of marble

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References

External links

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