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Pandit Shivkumar Sharma was an Indian famous classical musician, who attained international fame by playing the music instrument, santoor. The Santoor is a trapezoid-shaped hammered dulcimer often made of walnut wood and has 72 strings, which are struck with two delicate carved wooden mallets. The santoor is essentially a folk instrument that originated in the Kashmir Valley, and it achieved the status of a classical instrument due to the persistent efforts and genius of Pandit Shivkumar Sharma. With his hard work, determination and talent, Pandit Shivkumar Sharma made the santoor a global name.

Flute maestro Hariprasad Chaurasia seems a genetic oddity a consummate and world renowned musician born to a wrestler father and a homemaker mother who never went to school. The parents had no artistic pretensions, the mother died young, when the boy was barely four, and the father dreamt of his sons becoming wrestlers and earning name, wealth and fame through exploits in the akhada.

Begum Parween Sultana was born and brought up in a small town called Nowgaon in Assam from Jamindar family. Her great parents came from Afghanistan and settled down in Assam and started their business with timber, ivory and land owners of Nowgaon town, they were very much into Hindustani Classical Music

Ustad Rashid Khan is an Indian classical musician in the Hindustani music tradition. He belongs to the Rampur-Sahaswan Gharana, and is the great grandson of Gharana founder Ustad Inayat Hussain.

Hariharan is an Indian playback singer in Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Telugu movies, an established ghazal singer, and one of the pioneers of Indian fusion music

Ashwini Bhide Deshpande is an outstanding vocalist of Jaipur-Atrauli Khayal Gayaki tradition and represents the new generation of veterans worthy of wearing the mantle of the old masters.