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Born c.1500 • Gwalior • India
Buried 1586 or 1589 • India
Inventions rabāb
The sound of the sarod
Amjad Ali Khan
Indian musician and composer
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Tyagaraja
Indian composer
Ali Akbar Khan
Ali Akbar Khan
composer and musician
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Swati Tirunal
maharaja of Travancore
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Purandaradasa
Indian poet and composer
Patti Smith
Patti Smith
American poet, songwriter, and singer
Gulzar
Gulzar
writer, film producer, and director
Gil Scott-Heron sings into a microphone onstage before a large crowd, circa 1974, wearing a patterned shirt.
Gil Scott-Heron
American poet and musician
Ravi Shankar
Ravi Shankar
Indian musician and composer
Kazi Nazrul Islam
Kazi Nazrul Islam
Bengali author
Pandit Bhimsen Joshi passionately sings on stage, seated behind a microphone with a tanpura in the background during a classical Indian concert performance.
Bhimsen Joshi
Indian vocalist
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Mikhail Alekseyevich Kuzmin
Russian writer and composer
Guillaume de Machaut, detail of a miniature from Oeuvres de Guillaume de Machaut, c. 1370–80; in the Bibliothèque Nationale (Ms. Fr. 1584).
Guillaume de Machaut
French poet and musician
Portrait of Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore with long wavy hair and a full beard, wearing a simple robe and looking directly at the camera.
Rabindranath Tagore
Bengali poet
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Jackson Mac Low
American composer, poet, and performance artist
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Thomas Campion
English poet and musician
Vysotsky, Vladimir
Vladimir Vysotsky
Soviet actor, singer, and author
Bellman, detail of an oil painting by P. Krafft, 1779; in Gripsholm Castle, Sweden
Carl Michael Bellman
Swedish poet and musician
Archie Shepp, 1982
Archie Shepp
American musician and educator
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Paul Bowles
American composer, translator, and author

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