Tappa lineage

Type

regional style

Voice or instrument

Semi-classical vocal

Where it grew

Punjab

Later centres of activity

Gwalior, Varanasi, Bengal

Earliest documented figures

Ghulam Nabi Shori

Musicians documented

3

Ghulam Nabi Shori, known as Shori Miyan, is credited with shaping tappa from Punjabi camel-drivers' songs in the late eighteenth century.

Ordered oldest first, so the list reads down the generations: the earliest documented musicians of the tradition, then the players who carried it on, then those active today. The second view shows only the teacher-to-student links the archive can source.

• Ghulam Nabi Shori18th centurySemi-classical vocalNo page yet

  Also written Shori Miyan

  Credited with creating the classical tappa.

  No teaching relationship was proposed for this musician, so no relationship check was run; biographical research is still outstanding.

  Sources: Tappa — Wikipedia · Mian Ghulam Nabi Shori · [Solved] ________ was a prominent musicians of Faizabad ...

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• Ramnidhi Gupta1741–1839Semi-classical vocalNo page yet

  Also written Nidhu Babu

  Adapted tappa into Bengali as tappa-style Bengali song.

  No teaching relationship was proposed for this musician, so no relationship check was run; biographical research is still outstanding.

  Sources: Nidhu Babu — Wikipedia · The Timeless Melody of Nidhu Babu: Introduction of Tappa ...

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• Girija Devi1929–2017Thumri and tappa

  One of the last singers to perform Benares tappa regularly in concert.

  Taught by Sarju Prasad Misra

  Relationship checking is complete against the source text read for this musician; wider biographical research is still outstanding.

  Sources: Girija Devi — Wikipedia

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