Hariprasad Chaurasia

Indian flautist (born 1938)

Hariprasad Chaurasia (born 1 July 1938) is an Indian classical flautist and composer who plays the bansuri in the Hindustani classical tradition. Starting in the late 1950s, he developed the bansuri as a concert instrument through an approach drawing on vocal and instrumental techniques of Hindustani music, and became one of India's internationally known classical musicians. Born into a family with no professional musical background, Chaurasia initially trained as a wrestler at the insistence of his father while secretly studying music.

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