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Sangeet Natak Akademi Award For Hindustani Music (Vocal)
Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for Hindustani vocal Music is presented to the extremely talented vocalists of India.

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Sangeet Natak Akademi Award For Hindustani Music (Vocal)The Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for Hindustani Music (Vocal) is one of the principal categories of the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award. The Sangeet Natak Akademi Award was incepted by the prime body for performing arts in India, Sangeet Natak Akademi in the year 1954. It is considered as the highest national award for performing arts in India and is presented to the talented and successful performers from different fields of performing arts. Mushtaq Hussain Khan was the first person to win the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for Hindustani Music (Vocal) in the year 1952. Several eminent and extremely talented vocalists of Hindustani Music have won the award since then.
























The list of the winners of Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for Hindustani Music (Vocal) is given below:

Year Vocal Player Year Vocal Player Player
1952 Mushtaq Hussain Khan 1980 Nivruttibua Sarnaik
1953 Kesar Bai Kerkar 1981 Basavaraj Rajguru
1954 Rajab Ali Khan 1982 Vasantrao Deshpande
1955 Anant Manohar Joshi 1983 Mahadev Prasad Mishra
1956 Rajabhaiyya Poonchhwale 1984 Sharafat Hussain Khan
1957 Rasoolan Bai 1985 Kishori Amonkar, Nasir Aminuddin Dagar
1958 Ganesh Ramachandra Behere 1986 Asgari Bai, Firoz Dastur, Manik Varma
1959 Krishnarao Shankar Pandit 1987 C.R. Vyas, Shobha Gurtu, Pandit Jasraj
1960 Altaf Hussain Khan 1988 Padmavati Gokhale Shaligram
1961 Y.S. Mirashi Buwa 1989 Jitendra Abhisheki
1962 Bade Ghulam Ali Khan 1990 K.G. Ginde, Dhondutai Kulkarni
1963 Omkar Nath Thakur 1991 N. Zahiruddin Dagar, Prabha Atre
1964 Rahimuddin Khan Dagar 1992 Ramarao V. Naik, Shiv Kumar Shukla
1965 Hirabai Barodekar 1993 Bala Saheb Poochwale, Rahim Fahimuddin Dagar
1966 Siddheswari Devi 1994 Sulochana Brahaspati, Zia Fariduddin Dagar
1967 Amir Khan 1995 A. Kanan
1968 Mogubai Kurdikar 1996 Dinkar Kaikini, Hafeez Ahmad Khan
1969 Ramchatur Mallick 1997 L.K. Pandit
1970 Nisar Hussain Khan 1998 Puttaraj Gavaigalu, Parveen Sultana, Rajan-Sajan Mishra (Joint Award)
1971 Mallikarjun Mansur 1999 Malabika Kanan
1972 Begum Akhtar 2000 Ajoy Chakraborty, Rita Ganguly
1973 Gangubai Hangal 2001 Abhay Narayan Mallick, Sangameshwar Gurav, Malini Nag
1974 Shivaputra Siddaramayya Komkali "Kumar Gandharva" 2002 Sushila Rani Patel, Sharayu Kalekar
1975 Bhimsen Joshi 2003 Ghulam Mustafa Waris Khan, Yeshwant Balkrishna Joshi
1976 Narayanrao Vyas 2005 Ramashreya Jha
1977 Girija Devi 2006 Rashid Khan
1978 Khadim Hussain Khan 2007 Vidyadhar Vyas, Govardhan Mishra
1979 Sarachchandra Arolkar 2008 Ulhas Kashalkar



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