Dhrupad at the Darbar Festival

Ustad F. Wasifuddin Dagar

Indian dhrupad singer, born in New Delhi on 22 April 1968, who represents the twentieth unbroken generation of the Dagar family and its Dagarvani style. Dhrupad is the oldest surviving form of Hindustani classical singing: slow, unhurried, with each note given room before the next. It is art music rather than liturgy, but its roots are devotional and sound itself, nada, is treated as the practice.