Gauhar Jaan - wikipedia Gauhar Jaan Gauhar Jaan. Background information Birth name Angelina Yeoward ( 1873 - 06 - 26 ) 26 June 1873 Azamgarh, North - Western Provinces, British India 17 January 1930 ( 1930 - 01 - 17 ) ( aged 56 ) British India Genres Ghazal, Thumri, Dadra Occupation ( s ) Musician, dancer Years active 1887 -- 1930 Gauhar Jaan 's voice Thumari with `` My name is Gauhar Jaan '' at the end. Recorded in 1905. Gauhar Jaan ( born Angelina Yeoward, 26 June 1873 -- 17 January 1930 ) was an Indian singer and dancer from Calcutta. She was one of the first performers to record music on 78 rpm records in India, and released by Gramophone Company of India. Having recorded more than 600 records in more than ten languages between 1902 and 1920, Gauhar Jahan is credited with popularising Hindustani classical music such as thumri, dadra, kajri, tarana during the period. Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 3 Inspiration 4 India 's first recording sessions 5 Restoration and release 6 Contemporaries 7 See also 8 Further reading 9 References 10 External links Early life Gauhar Jaan was born as Angelina Yeoward on 26 June 1873 in Azamgarh, of Armenian descent. Her father, William Robert Yeoward, worked as an engineer in a dry ice factory, and married her mother, Victoria Hemmings, in 1872. Victoria, an Indian by birth, had been trained in music and dance. In 1879 the marriage ended, causing hardships to both mother and daughter, who later migrated to Banaras in 1881, with a Muslim nobleman, ' Khursheed ', who appreciated Victoria 's music more than her husband. Later, Victoria, converted to Islam and changed Angelina 's name to ' Gauhar Jaan ' and hers to ' Malka Jaan '. Career In time, Victoria ( now ' Malka Jaan ' ) became an accomplished singer, Kathak dancer and a courtesan in Banaras, and made a name for herself, as Badi Malka Jan ; she was called Badi ( elder ) because at that time three other Malka Jans were famous : Malka Jan of Agra, Malka Jan of Mulk Pukhraj and Malka Jan of Chulbuli, and she was the eldest amongst them. Malka Jaan moved back to Calcutta in 1883, and established herself in the courts of Nawab Wajid Ali Shah, who had settled at Matiaburj ( Garden Reach ), near Kolkata and within three years purchased a building at 24 Chit pore Road ( now Rabindra Sarani ), for Rs. 40,000. It is here that young Gauhar started her training, she learnt pure and light classical Hindustani vocal music from, Kale Khan of Patiala, ' Kalu Ustad ', Ustad Wazir Khan of Rampur, and Ustad Ali Baksh Jarnail ( founding members of Patiala Gharana ) and Kathak from legendary Brindadin Maharaj ( granduncle of Birju Maharaj ), Dhrupad dhamar from Srijanbai, and Bengali Keertan from Charan Das. Soon she also started writing and composing ghazals under the pen - name ' Hamdam ' and became proficient in Rabindra Sangeet. Gauhar Jaan gave her maiden performance at the royal courts of Darbhanga Raj in 1887 and was appointed as court musician, after receiving extensive dance and music training from a professional dancer at Banaras. Gauhar Jan started performing in Calcutta in 1896 and was called the ' first dancing girl ' in her records. She met Gujarati Parsi theatre artist Amrit Keshav Nayak around 1904 -- 1905 and had a brief relationship with him before his sudden death in 1907. He helped her recover from trauma following death of her mother. Gauhar Jaan first visited Madras in 1910, for a concert in the Victoria Public Hall, and soon her Hindustani and Urdu songs were published in a Tamil music book. In December 1911, she was famously invited to perform at the coronation of King George V at Delhi Durbar, where she sang a duet, Ye Hai Tajposhi Ka Jalsa, Mubarak Ho Mubarak Ho, with Jankibai of Allahabad. Eventually, in her final days, she moved to Mysore, at the invitation of Krishna Raja Wadiyar IV of Mysore, and on 1 August 1928, she was appointed as a ' Palace musician ', though she died within 18 months, on 17 January 1930 in Mysore. In her lifetime, she recorded more than 600 songs from 1902 to 1920, in more than ten languages, including Bengali, Hindustani, Gujarati, Tamil, Marathi, Arabic, Persian, Pushto, French, and English. She would round off her performances for a record by announcing ' My name is Gohar Jan '. She popularised light Hindustani classical music with her thumri, dadra, kajri, chaiti, bhajan, tarana renditions, and also mastered the technique of condensing performing the elaborate melody Hindustani classical style to just three and a half minutes for a record. Her most famous song are, thumri sung in Bhairavi is Mora nahak laye gavanava, jabse gaye mori sud huna live, Ras ke bhare Tore Nain, Mere dard - e-jigar and Bhajans like, Radhey Krishna Bol Mukhse. Inspiration It is said that, Begum Akhtar in her early days wanted to pursue a career in Hindi films, but after listening to the singing of Gauhar and her mother, she gave up the idea completely and devoted herself to learning Hindustani classical music, in fact, her first teacher was Ustad Imdad Khan, who accompanied the mother - daughter duo on sarangi. India 's first recording sessions India 's first recording sessions included Gauhar Jaan, singing a khayal in Raag Jogiya, recorded by Fred Gaisberg of the Gramophone Company. The sessions began on 8 November 1902. Over the course of six weeks, more than 500 matrices were recorded of local artists. The records were manufactured in Germany and shipped to India in April 1903. They proved a great success in popularising the gramophone in India, where locals had no interest or appreciation for Western music. The recording was done in a makeshift recording studio in two large rooms of a hotel in Kolkata. By 1903, her records started appearing in Indian markets and were in great demand. Restoration and release Saregama India ( formerly the Gramophone Co. of India Ltd. or His Master 's Voice ( HMV ) ), is planning to re-release the milestone recordings of Gauhar Jaan, after retrieving them from Gramophone Company 's London archives, and restoring them to their original glory. Her songs are also part of the ' Vintage Music From India ' ( 1996 ) audio album, and her image forms its cover. Contemporaries There were four singing contemporaries of Gauhar Jaan with first names pronounced the same way as hers and sometimes spelled in English in different ways : Gauhar Jan of Patiala ; Miss Gohar, who was associated with Parsi Theatrical Company in Bombay ( Mumbai ) ; Gohar Kayoum Mamajiwala ( also known as Miss Gohar ), a singer actress who was associated with and mistress of Sardar Chandulal Shah of Ranjit Films ( studio ), Bombay ; and Gohar Bai Karnataka of Bijapur. She is typically associated with Bal Gandharva See also Tawaif Nautch Further reading Sampath, Vikram ( 2010 ). My Name is Gauhar Jaan !. Rupa Publications. ISBN 8129116189. Khayal and thumri gayaki of Late Gauhar Jan of Calcutta, S.R. Mehta, Volume 5 ( January 1992 ), The Record News, The Journal of ' The Society of Indian Record Collectors ' ( SIRC ). Widdess, Richard ( 1994 ). `` Review : Vintage Music from India : Early Twentieth - Century Classical and Light - Classical Music ''. British Journal of Ethnomusicology. 3 : 132. Lall, Inder Jit, `` Erotic Malika who wrote poetry '', Patriot Magazine, 22 April 1973 References ^ Jump up to : Nevile, Pran ( 13 April 2008 ). `` Melodies on record ''. The Tribune. Retrieved 26 June 2018. ^ Jump up to : ' First dancing girl, Calcutta ' Jump up ^ About us Archived 25 September 2014 at the Wayback Machine. Sa Re Ga Ma. Jump up ^ Savitha Gautam ( 13 May 2010 ). `` The Hindu : Arts / Music : Recording Gauhar Jaan ''. Beta.thehindu.com. Retrieved 29 January 2012. Jump up ^ The importance of being Gauhar Jan The Tribune, 26 May 2002. ^ Jump up to : ' My name is Gauhar Jan ' www.the-south-asian.com, October 2003. ^ Jump up to : Gohar Jan Chowk, 16 April 2008. Jump up ^ Vikram Sampath. My Name is Gauhar Jaan. Rupa Publications. pp. 120 -- 122. ISBN 978 - 81 - 291 - 2233 - 9. Jump up ^ Gauhar Jan in Madras The Hindu, 14 January 2008. Jump up ^ Making musical waves The Hindu, 3 February 2003. Jump up ^ Gauhar Jan Discography Jump up ^ Melodies on record Pran Nevile, The Tribune, 13 April 2008. Jump up ^ Ras Ke Bhare Jump up ^ Lubinski, Christina ; Steen, Andreas ( 2017 ). `` Traveling Entrepreneurs, Traveling Sounds : The Early Gramophone Business in India and China ''. Itinerario. 41 ( 02 ) : 275 -- 303. doi : 10.1017 / S0165115317000377. ISSN 0165 - 1153. Jump up ^ Gauhar Jaan : Early Recordings in India 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. Jump up ^ `` ઠુમરીના જલસાઓની શાન : ' માય નેમ ઈઝ ગૌહર જાન ! ' ''. NavGujarat Samay ( in Gujarati ). 2016 - 05 - 21. Retrieved 2017 - 02 - 11. Jump up ^ Saregama 's online store www.livemint.com Wall Street Journal, 10 December 2007. ^ Jump up to : Rebuilding a 100 years of priceless recordings The Indian Express, 17 September 2006. Jump up ^ 100 years of recording The Telegraph, 1 November 2002. Jump up ^ ' Vintage Music From India ' External links Biography of Gauhar Jahan by David Courtney WorldCat Identities BNF : cb16164006f ( data ) GND : 1028379684 ISNI : 0000 0001 1739 9132 LCCN : n89269098 VIAF : 6531846 Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gauhar_Jaan&oldid=865247632 '' Categories : 1873 births 1930 deaths Hindustani singers Indian female classical singers Kathak exponents Singers from Kolkata Indian people of Armenian descent 20th - century Indian singers 19th - century Indian dancers 20th - century Indian dancers 19th - century Indian singers Women Hindustani musicians Dancers from Uttar Pradesh Singers from Uttar Pradesh 20th - century Indian women artists 19th - century Indian women artists Women artists from Uttar Pradesh 20th - century Indian women singers 19th - century Indian women singers Women musicians from Uttar Pradesh Hidden categories : Webarchive template wayback links CS1 Gujarati - language sources ( gu ) EngvarB from August 2014 Use dmy dates from August 2014 Articles with hAudio microformats Articles with hCards Wikipedia articles with BNF identifiers Wikipedia articles with GND identifiers Wikipedia articles with ISNI identifiers Wikipedia articles with LCCN identifiers Wikipedia articles with VIAF identifiers Talk Contents About Wikipedia Հայերեն हिन्दी ಕನ್ನಡ मराठी ਪੰਜਾਬੀ پنجابی ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲᱤ தமிழ் తెలుగు اردو 3 more Edit links This page was last edited on 22 October 2018, at 18 : 13 ( UTC ). 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