Great musician's greatest performance often are after a few pegs - Bhimsen Joshi is known to do that Maalis Magudi on fute is again peg related Others maybe doing that on the sly!
Great works, music are produced when people let go under influence of intoxicants and let their imagination run riot.
Kishori amonkar used to be in a spiritual trance when she sang .
She used to spend a lot of time in tuning her tanpura and sang with abandon .
During Haidas festival in mathura she sang even without an audience before deity of krishna as she was too early for her performance scheduled later
Listen to ' Mharo Pranam Bhanke'
She belonged to jaipur ghharana and sing divinely.
She was considered haughty and often at odds with many who were afraid of confronting her.
She was awarder Padma Vibushan posthumously this year I think.
Great singer of Khayal, light classicals thumri, bhajans
She sang the title song of 'Geet gaya patharone' in shantarams film of same name.
Her mother and guru were furious and took a promise from he that she never sings in film again debasing her art. She complied.
I love her singing.
Next of course to" Bade ghulam alikhan" of patiala gharana. Still his singing in Mughale Azam in scene with akbar and anarkali meeting in a garden is an all time
classic
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