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Indian classical music singer (1919–2008)

Firoz Dastur
Born(1919-09-30)30 September 1919
Bombay, Bombay Presidency, British India
Died9 May 2008(2008-05-09) (aged 88)
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Occupation

Singer • actor

Years active1941 – 2006
Known forIndian classical music
AwardsSangeet Natak Akademi Award by the Government of India in 1986
Tansen Award

Firoz Dastur (also spelled Feroze Dastur) (30 September 1919 – 9 May 2008) was an Indian actor and an Indian classical vocalist from the Kirana gharana (singing style).

Career

Born into a Parsi family in Bombay. Dastur worked in the Indian film industry in 1930s, acting in a few films by Wadia Movietone and others. In 1933, when Wadia Movietone under JBH Wadia, released its first talkie film, he performed classical songs as child actor in film Lal-e-Yaman. But his first love was Indian classical music.

He was a disciple of Sawai Gandharva, whose other disciples were Bhimsen Joshi and Gangubai Hangal, and a regular performer at Sawai Gandharva Music Festival for several years, well into his late 80s.

Dastur's music was very close to Abdul Karim Khan's style. He taught music to many students.

Death

Firoz Dastur died in May 2008 in Mumbai, India after a brief illness. He was 89.

Bibliography

References

  1. ^ "Celebrated Masters - Firoz Dastur". ITC Sangeet Research Academy website. Retrieved 8 January 2022.
  2. "Pt. Firoz Dastur – Baithak Foundation". 23 June 2021. Retrieved 5 June 2023.
  3. Gulzar; Govind Nihalani; Saibal Chatterjee (2003). Encyclopaedia Of Hindi Cinema. Popular Prakashan. p. 46. ISBN 978-81-7991-066-5. Retrieved 8 January 2022.

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