{"id":74,"date":"2007-04-09T04:40:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-09T10:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/melodiouslife.wordpress.com\/2007\/04\/09\/hariharan-my-favourite-singer-2\/"},"modified":"2007-04-09T04:40:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-09T10:10:00","slug":"hariharan-my-favourite-singer-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianmusics.com\/?p=74","title":{"rendered":"Hariharan-My Favourite Singer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:justify;\">I had an opportunity to listen to acclaimed ghazal singer Shri Hariharan in one of the ghazal concerts recently. The concert lasted for about 3 hrs and we were in bliss for those 3 hrs. The genius of his singing is difficult to describe. Hariharan is a master of Carnatic and Hindustani music. It is so evident in his singing. That evening he sang with so much variety and range that it was mind-boggling to listen to him. Moreover the accompanists in guitar, flute, sarangi, tabla &amp; keyboard were maestros themselves. I can say that he is the best singer I have heard ever. (Though there are many who are close to him like Rafi, Yesudas &amp; SPB) He has some great ghazal albums to his credit like <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Hazir, Kaash, Gulfam, Paigham<\/span> et al.<br \/>I also follow Hariji&#8217;s singing in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu &amp; Malayalam. He has rendered some wonderful melodies in these languages too. Music dirs like Rahman, Vidyasagar, Vishal Bharadwaj &amp; Ilaiyaraja have given some immortal melodies thro&#8217; him. I have earlier attended 2 of Hariharan&#8217;s concerts before where he sang tamil songs.<br \/>There&#8217;s a lot to look forward to from Hariharan in the future..a new ghazal album, another Colonial Cousins album, more film singing&#8230;..its definitely going to be exciting&#8230;&#8230;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had an opportunity to listen to acclaimed ghazal singer Shri Hariharan in one of the ghazal concerts recently. The concert lasted for about 3 hrs and we were in bliss for those 3 hrs. The genius of his singing is difficult to describe. Hariharan is a master of Carnatic and Hindustani music. It is&hellip;<span class=\"excerpt-more-link\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/indianmusics.com\/?p=74\">More <svg class=\"svg-icon\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" aria-hidden=\"true\" role=\"img\" focusable=\"false\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path fill-rule=\"evenodd\" clip-rule=\"evenodd\" d=\"M6.96954 10.2804L11.9999 15.3107L17.0302 10.2804L15.9695 9.21973L11.9999 13.1894L8.0302 9.21973L6.96954 10.2804Z\" fill=\"currentColor\"\/><\/svg><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,20],"tags":[104],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ghazals","category-singers","tag-hariharan","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianmusics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianmusics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianmusics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianmusics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianmusics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indianmusics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianmusics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianmusics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianmusics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}