Bhimsen Joshi was known for his powerful voice, amazing breath control, fine musical sensibility and unwavering grasp of the fundamentals, representing a subtle fusion of intelligence and passion that imparted life and excitement to his music.
A classicist by training, and temperament, Pandit Bhimsen Joshi was renowned for having evolved an approach that sought to achieve a balance between what may be termed as "traditional values and mass-culture tastes" and as such he went on to have supposedly the largest commercially recorded repertoire in Hindustani vocal music.
The first Charan of song “mile sur mera thumhara” was sung by Bhimsen ji !
Awards and Recognitions
• 1972 - Padma Shree
• 1976 - Sangeet Natak Akademi Award
• 1985 - Padma Bhushan
• 1985 - National Film Award for Best Male Playback Singer
• 1986 - "First platinum disc"
• 1999 - Padma Vibhushan
• 2000 - "Aditya Vikram Birla Kalashikhar Puraskar"
• 2001 - "Nadoja Award" from Kannada University
• 2002 - Maharashtra Bhushan
• 2003 - "Swathi Sangeetha Puraskaram" by Government of Kerala
• 2005 - Karnataka Ratna
• 2008 - Bharat Ratna
• 2008 - "Swami Haridas Award"
• 2009 - "Lifetime achievement award" by Delhi government
• 2010 - "S V Narayanaswamy Rao National Award" by Rama Seva Mandali, Bangalore
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