Gauhar Jan | The first recorded Bhairavi | रस के भरे तोरे नैन | ras ke bhare tore nain | 1904
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आजा सांवरिया तोहे गरवा लगा लूँ
रस के भरे तोरे नैन, साँवरिया, रस के भरे तोरे नैन
जेही चितवत तेही बस करी राखत
नाही पड़े मैका चैन सँवरिया
रस के भरे तोरे नैन
Taken from Gauhar Jaan, Malka Jaan Vol 1.
This is where it all began.
The excellent Suresh Chandvankar describes the story that has been retold by many since then in many forms n "My name is Gauhar Jan: first dancing girl, Calcutta", in the online journal Musical Traditions, November 2002.
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November 14,1902:
A very rudimentary and makeshift recording studio had been set up in two large rooms of a hotel in Kolkata by the Gramophone Company. Frederick William Gaisberg and his assistants had arrived just three weeks before from England on their first Far East recording expedition for the Gramophone Company, which had been founded in England in 1898. They had appointed a local agent for selecting and training artists for recording on gramophone discs. However, the agent selected Anglo-Indian artists and completely ignored local talent. Gaisberg then sought the help of the local Police Superintendent, visited several theaters, attended mehfilsMehfils - concerts at wealthy Jamindars’Jamindar - landlord palaces, and thus found at least one promising artist to begin with. The artist was a very famous dancing girl, and her voice was very sweet; although not for European ears. She agreed to a recording session for the handsome fee of 3,000 rupees. Such an artist was necessary in order to build a firm business foundation on the Indian scene, especially when several other German, French and American recording companies were also planning to capture the Asian market in general and the Indian market in particular.
At around 9.00 a.m. a young lady entered the studio with all her paraphernalia, including accompanists and relatives. Loaded fully with very expensive ornaments and jewelry, this 30 year old, fair, medium-built lady went onto the stage prepared for the recordings. Sarangi, harmonium, and tabla players began to tune their instruments. Gaisberg personally checked the equipment. A thick wax master record was placed on the turntable rotating at 78 rpm. A huge recording horn was fitted on the wall behind her and close to her face, and she was asked to sing loudly into the horn. At the narrow end of the long horn a diaphragm fitted with a needle was connected to the recording machinery, with a needle placed on rotating disc for cutting the grooves. play Sound ClipGaisberg requested her to sing for three minutes and announce her name at the end of the recording. At the end of the trial recording she announced - "My name is Gauhar Jan". (sound clip - Bhairavi ) This announcement was necessary since the wax masters were sent to Hanover in Germany for pressing the records and the technicians would make proper labels and confirm the name by listening to these announcements at the end of the three minutes performance.
Although sound recording was invented by Thomas Alva Edison in 1877, it took 20 years for the technology to mature, and after 25 years, in 1902, the first-ever recording of Indian Classical music was engraved in the grooves of a gramophone record. Gauhar Jan with gramophone, c.1905The song can be played even today in 2002 on a shellac record and Gauhar Jan will sing it faithfully for the music lovers and listeners as long as the technology to play back that singing exists. Who was this Gauhar Jan - the first dancing girl of Calcutta?
Born to Anglo-Indian parents, her name was Miss Angelina Yeoward. Her father, William Robert Yeoward, was an Armenian Jew working as an engineer in a factory producing dry ice at Azamgadh near Benares. He married a Jewish lady, Miss Victoria Hemming, around 1870, who was born and brought up in India and had learnt Indian dance and music. Angelina was born in 1873 and was baptized in the Methodist church in Azamgadh. This marriage did not last long due to Victoria’s love for dance and music and her relations with a Muslim friend named Khurshed. So after the divorce, she moved to Benares with Angelina and Khurshed, adopted Islam as her religion, and daughter and mother chose new names; Gauhar and Malka respectively. She spent eight years learning the art to perfection and emerged as a well-trained BaijiBaiji - Lady, as she had decided to take up the profession of entertainer through dance and music. She became popular as Badi Malka Jan; badi (elder) because at that time three other Malka Jans were famous (viz. Malka Jan of Agra, Malka Jan of Mulk Pukhraj and Malka Jan of Chulbuli) and she was the eldest among them.
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• Gauhar Jan / Jaan
• Bhairavi
• Ras Ke Bhare Tore Nain
Itna purana recording me bhi kitna achha lag raha hain sunne me ye gana😌♥️ just imagine samne se sunne me aur kitna achha lagta😍♥️🥹
If you are here congratulations your music taste is real.
Gauhar Jaan
India ki first female singer jinka gana record hua tha 1902 me gramophone me
Sukoon sa ha iski song mai us time ka feel krwata ha
Yeah 👍
Kaun kaun reel dekh kar aya hai
Main reel dekhkar nahi ayi ...
मै आया हूं
Me
Me too
Mee too
Heart touching. Transports the listener to a time 115 years ago.
And amazingly detailed write up
I got goosebumps 😮😮
Thanks Jai hind 🙏
Beajuty with nice voice
Itni saari knowledge aur itni khaas cheez ko itne kam likes and subscribers mile huwe hain 🫡
Sahi baat kahi aapne
Hum awaz ki duniya ke chahne wale khushnaseeb log hai
Hm soo sad 😢
Golden voice, she is truly great.🥇💚🙌
Actually ❤
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The recording should be digitally remastered and enhanced to give the original effect.
I want to listen to tansen they say when he sang the candles would ignite
Ye darbari hai na ??
Raga bhairavi
*Kya bakwas hy ye is singing k itnay paisay leti thi ye 😂😂😂😂🖐️🖐️🖐️👎👎👎👎*
congratulations! you played yourself
@@kdot78 aaj ke ye so called bade classical singers pe she's peed😂 itni ucch koti ki gaayika hain.. Tum kya jaano.. Tony kakkar ki aulad
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 i agree with you
She was the best at that time❤... And this was recorded in 1902 and obviously at that time the recording quality was not good so gana sunne me utna achha nahi lag raha... But just listen to her voice itna sur me gaa Rahi Hain♥️♥️😍
Gauhar jaan aaj ke hazaaro singers pe bhaari hai itni umda hai vo😂 choozey hain ye sb lambe lambe baal rakh ke gaane wale. Inke saamne.