Madhav Gudi

Pandit Madhav Gudi (23 December 1941 – 22 April 2011) was a Hindustani classical vocalist, who specialised in Khayal and renditions of devotional music, particularly of Dasavani.

Madhav Gudi demonstrated his musical talent by singing Bhimsen Joshi's songs from Kannada plays like Bhagya Nidhi and Parivartana.

In a true Guru-Shishya milieu which lasted well over twenty-five years, Pandit Madhav Gudi, the musician and performer was sculpted.

That made him Joshi's most trusted disciple, and the richest source of knowledge about the life & times of one of the greatest musicians of this century.

His students include his daughters - Anupama Mangalvede, Gayatri & Bhargavi, son Prasanna Gudi, brothers - Raghavendra Gudi & Sheshagiri Gudi, Bhimsen Mannur, Dr. Nagaraj Rao Havaldar, Omkarnath Havaldar, Uday Nayak, Sanjiv Chimmalgi, Sanjiv Jahagirdar, Upendra Bhat, Shrinivas Sawai, Shrivallabh Mulgund, Sham Alur, Ramesh Kulkarni, Anuradha Bhadri, Dilip Joshi, Sangeeta Katti, grandson Shriniketan, Uday Nayak, Nilam Sharma, Radha Bhat, Radha Mehta, Nandan Jodi, Nachiket Sharma, among others.