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Group : Kehra Ram and Group
Kehra Ram, 62, belongs to Sanpa village of Barmer, Rajasthan. He is from the Meghwal community. He started learning folk music since he was a very small child. Like everyone from his community he says that even a new born child in his community when it cries is in ‘Sur’ (Sur or Swaras are the 7 musical notes), that is how gifted they are. Kehra Ram could not complete his education because of financial instability in his family. In spite of everything, he was very keen to learn music and to take it up as a career. Since he could not study much he was not very well versed in the art of writing songs. But he learnt songs by reading books which were available to him and mostly from his family who too had the same passion for music.
He sings bhajans and plays tandoora. Kehra Ram belongs to the Meghwal caste, the people of this caste have been performing bhajans from the very beginning. Everyone in his family are fabulous musicians from generations. Although he or anyone in his family never got any formal learning, yet he has a very good and strong sense of music. For him, place, time, people or any other things never make any difference in his performance. His interest in music increased mostly because of his father and uncle, who inspired him to explore the avenues of religious folk music.
- Barmer
- Rajasthan