His repertoire ranged from the pure classical, Dhrupad to Vachanas, Natyageet, Thumri, and Ghazal (different styles of Indian music) spanning eight languages.
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This is the only Gharana that has still continued to sing Dhrupad-Dhamar along with Nom-Tom Alap, Khayal, Thumri, Tappa, Tarana, Hori, Dadra, Ghazal, Kaul, Rasiya etc.
He learned various forms of classical singing like Dhrupad, Khyal, Thumri, Bhajan, Dadra, Tarana, and so on from his father Iqbal Hussain Khan Bandanawazi.
Though trained also in the mediaeval Dhrupad genre, the uncle-nephew duo restricts its repertoire to the modern mainstream genre, Khayal, and the romanticist genres, Thumris, Dadra, and Ghazal.
The Bishnupur Gharana (alternatively spelt Vishnupur Gharana) (pronounced as /biʃ.nu.pur gʱɔ.ra.na/) is a form of singing that follows the Dhrupad tradition of Hindustani music, one of the two forms of Indian classical music.
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The Dhrupad style of Bishnupur had a good deal of influence on many of the songs composed by Tagore.
They have worked to expand the dhrupad repertoire by incorporating texts by Hindi poets such as Tulsidas, Padmakar and Nirala.
Mahamanyabar Rajkumar Srila-Srijukta Nabadwipchandra Dev Burman (1854 - September 5, 1931), also transliterated as Nabadwip Chandra Deb Barman, was a noted Indian sitarist and Dhrupad singer.
Vinod Kumar Dwivedi (born 10 May 1961) is an Indian classical Dhrupad-Dhamar singer, belonging to the Dharbhanga gharana.