Brij Narayan was born on 25 April 1952 and is an Indian classical musician who plays the string instrument sarod.
13 Facts About Brij Narayan
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Brij Narayan won the All India Radio instrumentalist competition in 1967 and accompanied his father on a tour to Afghanistan in 1969.
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Brij Narayan graduated from the University of Mumbai in 1972 and has since worked on movies and toured Africa, Europe, and America.
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Brij Narayan was born on 25 April 1952 in Udaipur, Rajasthan as the oldest son of sarangi player Ram Brij Narayan.
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Brij Narayan was taught music from an early age and began playing the sarod at the age of seven.
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Brij Narayan knows how to play sarangi, but chose to specialize in playing the sarod, stating he believed his background would give him an advantage over other sarod players and that he liked its "combination of melody and percussion".
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Brij Narayan studied for a short time under his uncle, tabla player Chatur Lal, and sarod player Ali Akbar Khan in Delhi, but returned to study under his father following Lal's death in 1965.
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In 1967, Brij Narayan received the President's gold medal as top instrumentalist in the All India Radio competition.
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Brij Narayan graduated from the University of Mumbai in 1972 and became a full-time musician; he performed at the Munich Olympics the same year.
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Brij Narayan played in the 1978 movie Main Tulsi Tere Aangan Ki and composed music for the 1988 movie The Bengali Night by Nicolas Klotz, which starred Hugh Grant.
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Brij Narayan received the Dagar Gharana Award from the Mewar Foundation in 1996 and toured France again in 1999.
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Brij Narayan performed for the Society for the Promotion of Indian Classical Music and Culture Amongst Youth, to interest young Indians in Indian classical music, and played on the 2002 album Music Detected by Deep Forest.
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Brij Narayan's son Harsh Narayan was born in the mid-1980s and plays sarangi since 1997; both Brij and his son have performed with Ram Narayan.