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Asha Bhosle
Asha Bhosle
Indian singer
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Ali Akbar Khan
Ali Akbar Khan
Hindustani musician
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Ravi Shankar
Ravi Shankar
Indian sitar player (1920-2012)
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Alla Rakha
Alla Rakha
Indian tabla player
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Nikhil Banerjee
Nikhil Banerjee
Indian sitar player
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Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
Pakistani musician, primarily a singer of qawwali
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Sultan Khan
Sultan Khan
Indian musician
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Ronu Majumdar
Ronu Majumdar
Indian musician
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Zakir Hussain
Zakir Hussain
Indian tabla player, musical producer, film actor and composer.
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Shankar Ghosh
Shankar Ghosh
Indian musician
Ken Hunt
British music writer

Ken Hunt

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British music writer
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Ken Hunt (born 11 April 1951) is an English music critic, journalist, broadcaster and translator who specialises in world music, folk and improvised musics. He has written for Mojo, Q, The History of Rock and AllMusic, has contributed to titles in Rough Guides' Music Reference Series, and is a musical consultant on the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. He is also an obituarist for The Guardian, The Independent, The Scotsman, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Times.

An authority on Indian classical music, Hunt has helped compile albums by Ravi Shankar, Lata Mangeshkar and Asha Bhosle. He has written liner notes for albums by many other artists, including Ali Akbar Khan, Shivkumar Sharma, Hariprasad Chaurasia, Yehudi Menuhin, Bert Jansch, Davy Graham and the Kronos Quartet. Ravi Shankar once described Hunt as "unique" in his understanding of the music of the Indian subcontinent.