Swami Haridas

He was a Court musician of Raja Man Singh Tomar of Gwalior and credited with a large body of devotional compositions, especially in the Dhrupad style, he is also the founder of the Haridasi school of mysticism, still found today in North India.

His work influenced both the classical music and the Bhakti movements of North India, especially those devoted to Krishna's consort Radha.

There are rival versions of the biography of Haridās, since his following was divided in the 1600s among the hereditary householder gosvāmīs and ascetic sādhus.

[1][2] Haridās composed Braj Bhasha poetry, collected in two works called Aṣṭadaś Siddhānta and the Kelimāl.

Haridās sung in the dhrupad style, and the content of his work solely consisted of describing and praising the forest līlās of Kr̥ṣṇa-Kuñjbihārī and Rādhā-Śyāmā.