Dagar Brothers

Dagar Brothers is the name under which the dhrupad singers Nasir Moinuddin Dagar (died 1966) and Nasir Aminuddin Dagar (1923-2000) sang as a duo, known as the Senior Dagar Brothers. Sons of Nasiruddin Khan Dagar, they belonged to the Dagar family of singers credited with keeping the old vocal style of North Indian classical music alive after independence, and their 1964 European tour brought dhrupad to Western listeners. Dagar Brothers toured Europe in 1964 at the invitation of the musicologist Alain Daniélou, with Moinuddin's wife Suraiya on tanpura and Raja Chatrapati Singh on pakhawaj.