Entertainment Desk :
Music legend Pandit Jasraj passed away on Monday in the United States. He was 90. He was a recipient of the Padma Shri (1975), Padma Bhushan (1990) and Padma Vibhushan (2000).
Jasraj was born on 28 January 1930 in Pili Mandori, a village of India’s Haryana, in a
middle-class Brahman family to Pandit Motiram, a classical singer.
In 1946, Jasraj moved to Kolkata where he began singing classical music
for radio, according
to Indian media.
He is also the founder of schools for Indian classical music in Atlanta, Tampa, Vancouver, Totonto, New York, New Jersey, Pittsburgh, Mumbai
and Kerala.
