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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 38. Chapters: Indian ghazal singers, Pakistani ghazal singers, Hariharan, Jagjit Singh, Mubarak Begum, Ghazal Srinivas, Noor Jehan, Begum Akhtar, Mehdi Hassan, Talat Mahmood, Ghulam Ali, Talat Aziz, Runa Laila, Pankaj Udhas, Ahmad Wali, Asad Amanat Ali Khan, Abida Parveen, Iqbal Bano, Habib Wali Mohammad, Roshan Ara Begum, Bhupinder Singh, Vikram Singh, Malika Pukhraj, Chitra Singh, Cassius Khan, Mahwash, Munni Begum, Ahmed and Mohammed Hussain, Farida Khanum, Anup Jalota, Nayyara Noor, Mohammad Hussain Sarahang, Ghulam Abbas Khan, Tahira Syed, Manhar Udhas, Rahim Bakhsh, Tina Sani, Asif Mehdi, Vithal Rao, Penaz Masani, Zahir Howaida, A. Nayyar, Anita Singhvi, Shafqat Ali Khan, Mehnaz, Master Madan, Amjad Amanat Ali Khan, Nirmal Udhas. Excerpt: Hariharan (Malayalam: , Tamil: , Devnagari: born 3 April 1955) is an Indian playback singer in Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Marathi, Bhojpuri and Telugu movies, an established ghazal singer, and one of the pioneers of Indian fusion music. His melody is strongly appreciated by the film fraternity. In 2004, he was honoured with the Padma Shri by the Government of India. ==Early life== Born in Thiruvananthapuram he grew up in Mumbai in a Tamil speaking family, and has bachelor degrees in science and law. He did his collegiate studies from S.I.E.S.College. The son of renowned Carnatic vocalists, Shrimati Alamelu and the late H.A.S. Mani (full name: Anantha Subramani Iyer), he inherited his parents' musical talents. Alamelu was Hariharan's first guru (mentor). From here he picked up Carnatic music skills. He was also exposed to Hindustani music from a young age. In his teens, inspired by the songs of Mehdi Hassan and Jagjit Singh, Hariharan developed a passion for ghazals and started training in Hindustani music from Ustad Ghulam Mustafa Khan. He used to put in nine hours of singing...
