{"id":26971,"date":"2020-08-18T06:06:58","date_gmt":"2020-08-18T06:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=26971"},"modified":"2020-08-18T06:07:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-18T06:07:00","slug":"classical-musician-pandit-jasraj-passed-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/classical-musician-pandit-jasraj-passed-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Classical musician Pandit Jasraj passed away"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Indian classical vocalist Pandit Jasrajh has died after suffering a cardiac arrest at the age of 90 years. Pandit Jasraj (born 1930) was an Indian classical vocalist, belonging to the Mewati gharana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/current-affairs-quiz-2019-daily-gk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Key-Points<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>He has been awarded Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship (2010), Padma Vibhushan (2000) and Sangeet Natak Akademi Award (1987).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jasraj created a novel form of jugalbandi called Jasrangi that is styled on the ancient system of moorchhana, between a male and a female vocalist, who each sing different ragas at the same time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2019, a minor planet (Asteroid 300128) between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter was named after Pandit Jasraj.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pandit Jasraj has also lent vocals to Oscar winning movie &#8216;Life of Pi&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian classical vocalist Pandit Jasrajh has died after suffering a cardiac arrest at the age of 90 years. Pandit Jasraj (born 1930) was an Indian classical vocalist, belonging to the Mewati gharana. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points He has been awarded Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship (2010), Padma Vibhushan (2000) and Sangeet Natak Akademi Award [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":404,"featured_media":26972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1248],"tags":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-26971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-august-2020"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26971"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26973,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26971\/revisions\/26973"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26971"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=26971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}