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Mahesh Kale

Bhakti · Abhang · Hindustani Classical Song

Indian singer, born in Pune on 12 January 1976, who trained with Pandit Jitendra Abhisheki of the Agra gharana in the gurukul way. His concert series Abhangwari is built on the abhang, the devotional verse of the Warkari tradition of Maharashtra, whose poets are sung on the pilgrimage to Vitthal at Pandharpur. He also sings classical and semi-classical repertoire.

BhaktiIndia / United States
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Mahesh Kale

The abhang is the verse of the Warkari, the people who walk each year to the temple of Vitthal at Pandharpur. Dnyaneshwar, Namdev, Janabai and Tukaram wrote in Marathi and for everyone, outside the languages and the settings that learning had claimed, and their lines are carried by the walking as much as by the singing.

He founded the Mahesh Kale School of Music in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2004, where he lives, and teaches there and online. He received the National Film Award for best male playback singer in 2015 for Katyar Kaljat Ghusali.

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