Monday, September 9, 2013
YOGESH SAMSI is
an Indian tabla player.
Yogesh Samsi born to renowned vocalist Pandit Dinkar
Kaikini. His father the eminent vocalist Dinkar Kaikini initiated Yogesh
at the age of six. At the age of four he started learning the tabla from
Pandit H. Taranth Rao. Later, he sought the guidance of Ustad Allarakha Khan,
one of the greatest percussionists. He spent 23 years under the tutelage of
Allarakha.
Yogesh Samsi has accompanied the top grade instrumentalists
and vocalists and dancers of India, including Ustad Vilayat Khan, Pt Dinkar
Kaikini, Pandit Bhimsen Joshi, Pt Shivkumar Sharma, Pt Hariprasad Chaurasia,
Ustad Amjad Ali Khan and Pt Birju Maharaj. He strives to keep up his revered
Guru's word of preserving the tradition in the presentation of tabla solo. He
also appeared in the first episode of Idea Jalsa with Shivkumar
Sharma & Takahiro Arai.
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