1. Pandit Damodar Hota was an Indian classical vocalist, musicologist, composer, and guru based in Odisha, India.
13 Facts About Damodar Hota
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Damodar Hota was an exponent of Hindustani classical music as well as Odissi classical music.
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Dandimani Devi and father Sri Gopinath Hota who was skilled in Odissi music and Mardala.
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Damodar Hota learned from the elderly musicians of the Jaga-Akhadas of Puri and the Jagannath Temple.
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Damodar Hota continued higher training in Odissi music under Guru Nrusingha Nath Khuntia.
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Damodar Hota attended the College of Music and Fine Arts at Banaras Hindu University.
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Damodar Hota held Madhyama Purna in Tabla and Visharad in Pakhawaj.
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Damodar Hota served as principal and senior faculty of Hindustani vocal music at Utkal Sangeet Mahavidyalaya.
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Pandit Damodar Hota had been teaching music in the gurukula tradition since 1963.
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Damodar Hota was the founder and chief guru of Swar Rang, an institution of Hindustani Classical and Udra Paddhatiya Sangita.
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From 2007 to 2016, Pandit Damodar Hota organized the annual Tridhara National Music Conference to spread knowledge of Udra Paddhatiya Sangita alongside the two other forms of Indian Classical Music.
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Pandit Damodar Hota established the Sri Jagannath Institute of Udra Padhhatiya Sangeet for research and training in Udra Paddhatiya Sangita.
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Damodar Hota died in Bhubaneswar on 5 February 2022, at the age of 86.