Firoz Dastur
{{Short description|Indian classical music singer (1919–2008)}}
{{Use Indian English|date=September 2013}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2024}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Firoz Dastur
| image = Pt.Firoz Dastur.jpg
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| birth_name =
| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1919|09|30}}
| birth_place = Bombay, Bombay Presidency, British India
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2008|05|09|1919|09|30}}
| death_place = Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
| known_for = Indian classical music
| occupation = {{Plainlist}}
Singer • actor
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| years_active = 1941 – 2006
| awards = Sangeet Natak Akademi Award by the Government of India in 1986
Tansen Award
}}
Firoz Dastur (also spelled Feroze Dastur) (30 September 1919 – 9 May 2008) was an Indian actor and an Indian classical vocalist from the Kirana gharana (singing style).
Career
Born into a Parsi family in Bombay.{{Cite web |date=2021-06-23 |title=Pt. Firoz Dastur – Baithak Foundation |url=https://baithak.org/pt-firoz-dastur/ |access-date=2023-06-05 |language=en}} Dastur worked in the Indian film industry in 1930s, acting in a few films by Wadia Movietone and others. In 1933, when Wadia Movietone under JBH Wadia, released its first talkie film, he performed classical songs as child actor in film Lal-e-Yaman.{{cite book|author1=Gulzar|author2=Govind Nihalani|author3=Saibal Chatterjee|title=Encyclopaedia Of Hindi Cinema|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8y8vN9A14nkC&pg=PT70|accessdate=8 January 2022|year=2003|publisher=Popular Prakashan|isbn=978-81-7991-066-5|pages=46}} But his first love was Indian classical music.
He was a disciple of Sawai Gandharva, whose other disciples were Bhimsen Joshi and Gangubai Hangal,{{cite web |title=Celebrated Masters - Firoz Dastur |url=https://www.itcsra.org/Celebrity.aspx?Celebrityid=13|date= |publisher=ITC Sangeet Research Academy website|accessdate=8 January 2022}} and a regular performer at Sawai Gandharva Music Festival for several years, well into his late 80s.
Dastur's music was very close to Abdul Karim Khan's style. He taught music to many students.
Death
Firoz Dastur died in May 2008 in Mumbai, India after a brief illness. He was 89.
Bibliography
- {{cite book|author=Homi Rogers|title=Feroz Dastur: Striking the Right Note|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8S6rOwAACAAJ|year=1993|publisher=Trustees of the Parsi Punchayet Funds and Properties}}
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|0202117|Feroze Dastur}}
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Category:20th-century Indian male classical singers
Category:Male actors from Mumbai
Category:Indian male film actors
Category:Male actors in Hindi cinema
Category:Indian music educators
Category:20th-century Indian male actors
Category:20th-century Khyal singers