1. Raghunath Panigrahi is most known for his renditions of Jayadeva's Gita Govinda and his vocal support for his wife, the Odissi danseuse Sanjukta Panigrahi.
11 Facts About Raghunath Panigrahi
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Raghunath belonged to a family associated with Odissi music for centuries, members of which were 19th-century Odissi poet-composer Sadhaka Kabi Gourahari Parichha and Gayaka Siromani Apanna Panigrahi who was the royal musician of Paralakhemundi.
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Raghunath Panigrahi started his musical training from his father Pt Neelamani Panigrahi, who had been collecting traditional Odissi melodies of the Gita Govinda from the Jagannatha Temple of Puri.
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Later, Raghunath continued learning Odissi music under Pt Narasingha Nandasarma and Pt Biswanatha Das.
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Raghunath Panigrahi sang in popular Odia, Kannada, Tamil and Telugu movies.
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Raghunath Panigrahi made a lifetime contribution of promoting, propagating and popularizing the life and works of Jayadeva and the cult of Lord Jagannatha.
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Sanjukta-Raghunath Panigrahi played for many years from the 1960s until the 1990s.
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Raghunath Panigrahi was born on 10 August 1932 in Gunupur, Rayagada, Odisha.
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Raghunath Panigrahi started his musical training first under his father, Sri Nilamani Panigrahi, who later put him under the tutelage of Odissi music exponent Pt Narasingha Nandasarma of Puri.
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Raghunath Panigrahi met his future wife dancer Padma Shri Sanjukta Panigrahi at Kalakshetra dance school, subsequently they married in 1960 and had two sons.
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Raghunath Panigrahi died on 25 August 2013 in Bhubaneswar at the age of 82.