July 18, 2020
Brief Intro: Avinash Vyas-A legend of Gujarati Sangeet: by Vijay Bhatt
Good morning friends:
Thought let us share talk about the most prolific cultural icon, especially
a geet-sangeet legend of Gujarat - Shri
Avinash Vyas.
Avinash Vyas- some call him Avinash bhai, Shri RasBihari Desai
used to call him ‘Bhai’. I call him a person who made Gujarat sing -
its own 'Gujarati Geet'. – Bhisham Pitamaha of Gujarati Sangeet.
Of course Gujarat has a great heritage of Lok-geet and Lok-sangeet. Gujarat had traditional raas, garba, duha, charann geet, akyaan, chhappa, Sant
vaani, religious songs, and many other traditional flavor of music. Gujarat had
very few of its own contemporary geet-sangeet which reflect urban culture (of non-folk,
non-tribal, non-rural). Avinash Vyas introduced that piece in Gujarati music genre.
It is documented that Avinash Vyas has written and composed more
than 11000 (yes eleven thousand plus) songs! The genre of those lyrics and
music include garba, raas, ballet dance songs, wedding songs,film songs,
gazals, situational songs, and bhajans. Yes, he wrote and composed and recorded.
Many of his compositions were directly copied by Hindi film
music directors. For example, he wrote and composed- TAME' THODA THODA THAV
VARNNAGI O BHABI TAME... This composition is literally stolen in the melody of
BADE ARMAAN SE RAKKHA HE BALAM TERI KASAM... Even recent popular Hindi movie
song - CHOGAALAA TAARA...is based on his song RANGLO JAMYO.
Most of his Garba are sung during Navratri. Many are not aware that they are by
Avinash bhai. His MAADI TAARU KANKU has
become internationally iconic Gujarati song next to Narsinh’s VAISHNAV JANATO.
Most of the current Gujarati singers usually include Avinash bhai's songs in
their concerts to get most claps. Most bhajan singers sing his DHUNI RE
DHAKHAAVI... and do not attribute or know that it is written and composed by Avinash Vyas.
His Hu Tu Tu is a unique Kabbadi sports song!
His lyrics has influence of Gujarati lok-sangeet, Gujarati poets, likes of Kavi Dayaraam and others. The torch of his great musical traditions is continued by his protege' Padma Shri Purushottam Upadhyay, and his son Shri
Gaurang Vyas and their students. Avinash
bhai has influenced and inspired all Gujarati musicians and singers. His legacy
will continue forever in different manifestations as it happens with all
legendary artistic and cultural contributions.
Let us enjoy a medley of mix of his songs and other Gujarati lok-geet!
Please Click on the following Youtube link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwPOafKZB-s
4 comments:
વાહ!
Thanks Pankaj Desai!
Very nice article
Krutika Trivedi
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