{"id":2741,"date":"2011-02-05T20:45:52","date_gmt":"2011-02-06T00:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/?p=2741"},"modified":"2011-02-05T20:50:57","modified_gmt":"2011-02-06T00:50:57","slug":"sureshbabu-mane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/sureshbabu-mane\/","title":{"rendered":"Sureshbabu Mane"},"content":{"rendered":"

This recording of the Bhairavi thumri “Baju band khul khul jaa”<\/em> is really exquisite. Sureshbabu’s vocal quality is very much like that of his father Abdul Karim Khan, but there is a relaxed sweetness that is unique.<\/p>\n

Sureshbabu Mane (1902 – 1953) was a prominent Hindust\u0101ni classical music singer of Kir\u0101n\u0101 Ghar\u0101n\u0101 in India.<\/p>\n

Sureshbabu was born as Abdul Rehm\u0101n to Kirana Gharana master Ust\u0101d Abdul Karim Kh\u0101n and T\u0101r\u0101b\u0101i M\u0101ne. Tarabai was the daughter of Sard\u0101r M\u0101ruti R\u0101o M\u0101ne, a brother of princely Barod\u0101 state’s “Rajm\u0101t\u0101” during the middle of the 19th century. Abdul Karim Khan was the court musician in Baroda when Tarabai was young, and he taught her music. The two fell in love and decided to get married; but Tarabai’s parents disapproved of the alliance, and the couple had to leave the state (along with Abdul Karim’s brother, Ust\u0101d Abdul Haq Kh\u0101n). The couple moved to Bombay (Mumbai), and had two sons: Suresh or Abdul Rehm\u0101n, and Krishn\u0101; and three daughters: Champ\u0101kali, Gul\u0101b, and Sakin\u0101 or Chhotut\u0101i. In their adult lives, the five respectively became known as Sureshb\u0101bu M\u0101ne, Krishnar\u0101o M\u0101ne, Hir\u0101b\u0101i Badodekar, Kamal\u0101b\u0101i Badodekar, and Sarswatib\u0101i R\u0101ne.<\/em><\/p>\n

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His pronunciation is very soft, a characteristic of many Kirana style singers who embodied the notion that clear articulation of the words detracted from qualities of intonation. This is a highly vowel-oriented style!<\/p>\n

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Sureshbabu was an avocational alchemist, a tragic hobby that may have contributed to his early death through exposure to toxic chemicals. It’s trite but accurate to remark that his real alchemy was in the realm of musical expression; I have rarely heard such a haunting version of this thumri.<\/p>\n

I used to visit Hirabai Barodekar’s house in Pune fairly often when I was living there. She was a very old lady at the time; I sang for her once just after I’d arrived and she was kind and polite in her responses. Her grandson Nishikant Barodekar<\/a> was on his way to becoming a very well-regarded tabliya.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This recording of the Bhairavi thumri “Baju band khul khul jaa” is really exquisite. Sureshbabu’s vocal quality is very much like that of his father Abdul Karim Khan, but there is a relaxed sweetness that is unique. Sureshbabu Mane (1902 – 1953) was a prominent Hindust\u0101ni classical music singer of Kir\u0101n\u0101 Ghar\u0101n\u0101 in India. Sureshbabu […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,7,9,638],"tags":[210,39],"class_list":["post-2741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-indian-music","category-music","category-vocalists","tag-genius","tag-kirana-gharana"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2741"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2744,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2741\/revisions\/2744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}