Hindustan Times link: http://www.hindustantimes.com/Five-nbsp-Indians-on-Amazon-s-greatest-music-albums/H1-Article1-445747.aspx
Here is the Amazon top 100: http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1000416151 - Jahanzeb --- In arrahmanfans@yahoogroups.com, Gopal Srinivasan <catchg...@...> wrote: > > Five Indians feature on list of world's greatest music ever > > Malvika Nanda malvikana...@... > NEW DELHI: > > > Good news for Indian music aficionados. > Five Indian artistes have made it to Amazon.com's 100 Greatest World > Music albums of all time. The list includes albums of Asha Bhosle, > Ustaad Ali Akbar Khan, Shujaat Hussain Khan and A.R. Rahman. > > They share space with some of the most respected world musicians like > Bob Marley, French-Algerian Rachid Taha and Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali > Khan. > > Amazon.com is an American multinational elec tronic commerce company > and a major online music and video retailer. > > The highest scoring Indian artiste on the list -n not surprisingly -- > is Pandit Ravi Shankar, whose album The Ravi Shankar Collection: > Live... sits at number 20. Rahman's Lagaan soundtrack is on number 44, > while Bhosle's Precious Platinum that was released last year is on > number 37. On number 38 is revered sarod player Ustad Ali Akbar Khan, > who along with his colleague Shankar is known to have popularised > Indian classical music in the west. > > Bhosle's son and manager, Anand, speaking to HT from Bahrain, said: > "It was for her 75th birthday last year. She put her best foot > forward... > and in spite of negligible promotion in India, it has made it to the > Amazon 100... list." While these albums are all on Indian labels, > 2004Grammy nominated sitar player Ustad Shujaat Husain Khan has made > it to number 52 with his fusion album on an American label. The album > Lost Songs Of The Silk Road by Ghazal features a beautiful synthesis > of Indian and Persian music. > > While calling it an honour Khan said it's time the Indian government > made a note too. >
