Mogubai kurdikar biography sample

Mogu Kurdikar was born in a "kalāwant" (entertainers) community in the village of Kurdi in the then Portuguese Goa. When she was ten years old.

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Early life Kurdikar was born in Kurdi village, Portuguese-ruled Goa to a Maratha Gomantak Samaj family.

Mogubai Kurdikar was born on 15th July , in a small village in Goa. It was her mother who first initiated her into a theatre troupe.

Shrimati Mogubai is now known as one of India's great singers.

Early life Kurdikar was born in Kurdi village, Portuguese-ruled Goa to a Maratha Gomantak Samaj family..

Mogubai Kurdikar

Indian classical vocalist

"Gaan Tapasvini" Mogubai Kurdikar (Devanagari: मोगूबाई कुर्दीकर) (15 July 1904 – 10 February 2001) was a renowned Indian classical vocalist of the Jaipur-Atrauli gharana.^[1] She was known for being a leading student of Alladiya Khan and the guru and mother of Kishori Amonkar, the most popular Hindustani classical female vocalist of the 20th Century.^[2]

Life and career

Early life

Kurdikar was born in Kurdi village, Portuguese-ruledGoa to a Maratha Gomantak Samaj family.^[3] Little is known of her father; her mother, Jayashreebai, was from the Devadasi community and known locally as a talented singer.^[4]

In 1913, Kurdikar began learning music for a while from a holy man at a Damodar Temple in Zambaulim, arranged by her mother.

Later, Kurdikar's mother took her to a traveling theater company, the Chandreshwar Bhootnath Sangeet Mandali, which accepted her as an actress.^{[citation needed}