Subhash

A 35-year-old artist from Banaras, Subhash has been learning music through the traditional art forms like Kajri, Sohar, and Chaiti. From a very young age, he began to learn music by taking inspiration from Bablu Yadav. He has been working hard towards achieving mastery in his craft and pursues it with tremendous passion. He considers Bablu Yadav as his guru and speaks very highly of their teachings and calibre in the field of music. He also believes that he inherited music from his family lineage. When he was a child, he would try to imitate the elders of his village as they played and sang bhajans and thus picked up the will to sing and never stopped learning. He also knows how to play Tasha apart from Jodi and has performed in various locations within the country. He has received rousing responses from his audiences and pulled off brilliant performances at many festivals only to galvanize the crowds. He lives in a family of ten people and has two sons and two daughters. Thus, he also has to work as a farmer and a tractor driver to make ends meet. Despite all his struggles, he strives to keep developing his craft and dreams to educate his audience about this artform. Someday in the future, he sees himself succeed through the art that he loves so much.

• Purvanchal
• Uttar Pradesh