Lok sahitya bhikhudan gadhvi biography

Indian folk singer (born 1948)

Bhikhudan Govindbhai Gadhvi (born 1948) is an Indian folk singer and songwriter, known as a proponent of Dayro, a narrative singing tradition of Gujarat.^[1] He is a recipient of the Gujarat Gaurav Award of the Government of Gujarat and the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award.^[2] The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian honour of the Padma Shri, in 2016, for his contributions to folk music.^[3]

Biography

Bhikhudan Gadhvi was born on 19 September 1948 in Khijdad, a village in Porbandar district of the Indian state of Gujarat.^[4][5] He started singing at the age of ten and after completing his secondary school education, he made his debut as a singer at the age of 20.^[6] Reading the works of Jhaverchand Meghani and Dula Bhaya Kag early in his life is reported to have inspired Gadhvi to take up song writing and he focused on Dayro tradition, a folk music