डी. वी. पलुस्कर

D.V. Paluskar — Dattatreya Vishnu Paluskar — was the son of the legendary Vishnu Digambar Paluskar, founder of the Gandharva Mahavidyalaya and the man who restored Hindustani classical music to public respectability. He carried that inheritance at a literally prodigious level: by his mid-teens he was performing concerts on his own, and his HMV bhajan recordings of the mid-to-late 1940s — including the canonical 'Raghupati Raghav Raja Ram' — became the standard by which devotional singing was measured for a generation. He died tragically young at 34.