Durga Jasraj

Durga Jasraj

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Durga Jasraj Profile

  • Name:
  • Durga Jasraj
  • Born:
  • September 12, 1971
  • Father:
  • Pandit Jasraj
  • Mother:
  • Madhura Pandit

Durga Jasraj Biography

Durga Jasraj is a classical vocalist, television actress and Original Content Producer. She is the daughter of renowned musician Pandit Jasraj. She founded "Art and Artistes (India) Pvt. Ltd.", an entertainment programming company in 1999. It promotes various forms of Indian music. She also co-founded Indian Music Academy (IMA) in 2006. She is most known for the role of Rani Kalavathi in the top rated serial of Doordarshan, Chandrakanta, aired during middle 1990’s.

 

Durga was born on 12 September 1971 in Mumbai as the daughter of great Pandit Jasraj. Her mother Madhura Pandit is the daughter of great film maker V. Shantaram. Her elder brother, Sharang Dev is a music director. She started her career as a vocalist at the age of 7. She has performed Hindustani music along with her father in many music concerts. But now though she has stopped singing years ago, she is solely concentrating on music related concerts, giving publicity and promotes artists and Indian music worldwide through her organization. Her father was the chief patron of IMA, the organization she found in 2006. It was formally inaugurated on Feb 18, 2006, by then-President A P J Abdul Kalam at Mumbai’s National Centre for the Performing Arts. Now this organization acts as a charity helping old and ailing musicians of the industry and gives them a helping hand, what they actually deserve.

 

Her role in Chandrakanta and Zee TV's show, Antakshari made her a popular figure. She co-hosted the long running musical game show aside Annu Kapoor. She has also produced the musical program, Idea Jalsa in Doordarshan in 2009. Durga was married at a younger age of 18 and got divorced 3 years later. By this time, she had a girl and now Durga’s daughter Anvi is working in - Art and Artistes Digital Media Works. 

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Updated: January 02, 2014

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