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Tyagaraja

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Sadguru Sri Tyāgarāja Swāmi (4 May 1767 – 6 January 1847), also known as Tyāgayya, and in full as Kākarla Tyāgabraḥmaṁ, was a composer of Carnatic Music, a form of Indian Classical Music. Tyāgarāja and his contemporaries, Śyāma Śāstri and Muthuswāmi Dikshitar, are regarded as the Trinity of Carnatic Music. Tyāgarāja composed hundreds of devotional kṛti ( compositions), mostly in Telugu and in praise of Rāma. Many of them remain popular to this day. Of special mention are five of his compositions called the Pañcaratna Kṛti ( five gems), which are often sung in programs held in his honor. Tyāgarāja composed many Utsava Sāmpradāya Kṛti ( festive ritual compositions), meant to be sung in temple rituals/festivities and Divya Nāma Saṅkīrtana ( divine compositions on the Lord’s various names), sung as a part of concerts and daily life. Tyāgarāja lived through the reigns of four kings of the Thanjavur Maratha rule – Thuljaji (1763–1787), Amarasimha (1787–1798), Serfoji II (1798–1832) and Shivaji II (1832–1855), although he served none of them. Biography Tyāgarāja was born Kākarla Tyāgabraḥmaṁ in 1767 to a Telugu Vaidiki Mulakanādu Brahmin family in Thiruvarur, present-day Thiruvarur Distri

Tyagraj Khadilkar

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Tyagraj Khadilkar is an Indian singer, music composer, actor and host in Marathi film industry. He was the contestant of Bigg Boss Marathi 1 and was Evicted on Day 56. Childhood Tyagraj Khadilkar is from the musical family of Krushnaji Prabhakar Khadilkar in Kolhapur. He is also the brother of Amruta Natu who is a well known play back singer in Marathi music industry. He completed his initial schooling in Kolhapur and then moved to Pune. He completed his schooling at Modern High School, Pune and graduated from PES Modern College of Engineering Pune. He received music education from his mother Manjushri Khadilkar and Indirabai Khadilkar and Gangadhar buva Pimpalkhare. Career Tyagraj has sung more than 52 title tracks of Marathi TV shows. He has worked with few music composers like Datta Davjekar, Anil Mohile, Shridhar Phadke, Ram-Lakshman, Ashok Patki and Avadhoot Gupte. He has given a play back to more than 35 Marathi movies. He has also worked as a TV host of programs including Aarahi, Geetakshri, Naman Natawara, Tikal Te Political and Sher-E-Nagma. He has sung more 60 title songs of TV serials including Hamm Panch, Tutaki Bajake and Tikal Te Political. Play back singer and Compos

Tymko Padura

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Tymko Padura (21 December 180120 September 1871, born Tomasz) was a Romantic poet Notes References

Tyondai Braxton

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Tyondai Adaien Braxton (born October 26, 1978) is an American composer and musician. He has composed and performed music under his own name and collaboratively since the mid-1990s, until his departure from the group in 2010. Early life As a teen, Braxton took musical inspiration from alternative rock bands like Nirvana and Sonic Youth, as well as from electronic music. He studied composition at the Hartt School of the University of Hartford in West Hartford, Connecticut, where his teachers included Robert Carl, Ingram Marshall, and Ken Steen. He is the son of composer Anthony Braxton and has cited early exposure to recordings by Karlheinz Stockhausen and John Coltrane as being influential. Career Early solo work and Battles (2000–2009) After receiving his degree, Braxton moved to New York City in 2000. He became active in New York City’s experimental music scene, developing a solo practice centered on guitar, voice, effects pedals, and live looping. His performances used layers of recorded and processed sound to create dense, evolving textures, establishing an approach to electronic composition and sound design that would remain central throughout his career. During this period he

Tyshawn Sorey

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Tyshawn Sorey (born July 8, 1980) is an American composer, multi-instrumentalist, and professor of contemporary music. Sorey has received accolades for performances, recordings, and compositions ranging from improvised solo percussion with work in best-of lists for both classical and jazz music. The New Yorker included Sorey on its annual “Notable Performances and Recordings” lists in 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020; the pandemic-era entry was for premieres “cast in unconventional concerto form”. His prolific output during a time of heavy restrictions on live performance led a New York Times critic to call him 2020’s “composer of the year”. Sorey received the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Music for his Adagio (for Wadada Leo Smith). He was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2017, and in 2019 his song cycle for Josephine Baker, Perle Noire: Meditations for Josephine, was performed on the steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. His life and work have been the subject of features in publications including The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, NPR Music, Sorey has recorded or performed with Wadada Leo Smith, Steve Coleman, Anthony Braxton, John Zorn, Steve Lehman, Joey Baron, Muh