ArtistInfo

Krishna Bhatt

sit, voc, tab, *1949 IN, Jaipur
Musician of World and Folk

Krishna Mohan Bhatt (Hindi: कृष्ण मोहन भट्ट) (born 1949) is a sitar player, teacher and scholar from Jaipur, India.He comes from a family of musicians in Jaipur. His father, the late Shashi Mohan Bhatt, a sitarist of great repute and a professor at the University of Rajasthan, Jaipur trained many musicians in the family including Krishna Bhatt, Manju Mehta in Ahmedabad and Vishwa Mohan Bhatt. Krishna Bhatt’s forefathers migrated from the south of India (Andhra Pradesh) to the state of Rajasthan in the northwest, a princely state then, to seek employment in the “Gunijankhānā” (department of learned scholars) of the Maharaja of Jaipur. They were Sanskrit scholars, poets, and musicians.

Instruments

• Sitar
• Vocals
• Tablas

Genres

• World
• Folk
• Classical