Pran Nath

November 3, 1918 (age 77)

Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan

Pran Nath served Khan for 7 years before he was accepted as a student, and stayed with Khan for nearly two decades. In 1937, he became a staff artist with All India Radio. However, Nath stuck to a very austere singing style – heavy emphasis on alap, and very slow tempi – which suited his voice well, but was not very popular to the modern Indian taste. Like his teacher Abdul Wahid Khan, Pran Nath"s singing emphasized precise intonation and the gradual exposition of tone and mood in the alap section of the music Nath supported himself as a music teacher, and worked at the University of Delhi from 1960 to 1970. He was also a visiting professor of music at Mills College. In 1970, Pran Nath travelled to New York to visit the American composer Louisiana Monte Young and visual artist Marian Zazeela, who heard his first issued recording, Earth Groove: The Voice of Cosmic India. In 1972, he established his Kirana Center for Indian Classical Music in New York City and stayed in the United States. for the rest of his life. He taught at several universities and attracted a strong following among the American minimalist composers. Like his teacher, Abdul Wahid Khan, Pran Nath did not emphasize recording or the releasing of records, preferring live performance. As such, little recorded documentation of the Kirana Gharana style is available. While only three recordings of Pran Nath were released during his lifetime, a large number of recordings exist under the care of Louisiana Monte Young. In Pran Nath"s will Young, as executor of his estate, was instructed to begin releasing recordings.

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Pran Nath was born into a wealthy family in Lahore in present-day Pakistan.

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Pran Nath served Khan for 7 years before he was accepted as a student, and stayed with Khan for nearly two decades. In 1937, he became a staff artist with All India Radio. However, Nath stuck to a very austere singing style – heavy emphasis on alap, and very slow tempi – which suited his voice well, but was not very popular to the modern Indian taste.

Like his teacher Abdul Wahid Khan, Pran Nath"s singing emphasized precise intonation and the gradual exposition of tone and mood in the alap section of the music

Nath supported himself as a music teacher, and worked at the University of Delhi from 1960 to 1970. He was also a visiting professor of music at Mills College.

In 1970, Pran Nath travelled to New York to visit the American composer Louisiana Monte Young and visual artist Marian Zazeela, who heard his first issued recording, Earth Groove: The Voice of Cosmic India. In 1972, he established his Kirana Center for Indian Classical Music in New York City and stayed in the United States. for the rest of his life.

He taught at several universities and attracted a strong following among the American minimalist composers.

Like his teacher, Abdul Wahid Khan, Pran Nath did not emphasize recording or the releasing of records, preferring live performance. As such, little recorded documentation of the Kirana Gharana style is available. While only three recordings of Pran Nath were released during his lifetime, a large number of recordings exist under the care of Louisiana Monte Young.

In Pran Nath"s will Young, as executor of his estate, was instructed to begin releasing recordings.

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