Atul Purohit BiographyThe name needs no introduction! The living legend, Atul Purohit is a world renowned Gabra singer who redefined the lines of classical music. He has evolved from a kid who identified his own talent in music and moved to Baroda to a storm that has swept the fans of his music off their feet.Atul Purohit is a Classical Singer, Most famous as a Gujarati Folk (Garba) Singer. Atul Purohit is also very famous for Sunderkand and devotional songs. People love him for his bejeweled talents and melodious songs like “Tara Vina Shyam” and “Vhalamni Vaat Kai”.Shri Atul Purohit was born in a small village called “DHOLAR” near Dabhoi on February, 27 1957. From his childhood he loved music and Singing. He got his first harmonium at a very young age of 10 years and started learning by own.To recognize his sole talent he came to baroda.

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He joined the music college for dramatics. In beginning he started performing in Local Street and with local artists for free.Atul Purohit’s music genes are Garba, Sugam Sangeet, Bhajans and his Influences are Folk, Hindustani classical, Sugam sangeet, bhajan and sufi.In year 1983 he established the group known “Rishabh” with his 5 friends.

His bejeweled talent made history by “Tara Vina Shyam”. His album “Tara Vina Shyam” made him world famous garbasinger.

In year 1992 he established another group “The Rutambara Group”. Shri Atul Purohit has also achieved Gujarat Gaurav Puraskaar.The Rutambara Group is one of the major attractions at United Way of Vadodara. The Rutambaragroup has been singing for United Way for the last 18 years.

United Way of Vadodara claims to have largest gathering of people at its venue during Navratri. Considering the huge crowd that it attracts every year, United way organizers have applied for Guinness Book of World Records for having highest number of people at its venue. Share your reviews about Atul Purohit.

For the last two months Rajal Patel had been waiting for a special package to arrive from India. She was at work when she got a message a fortnight ago that FedEx had delivered the parcel. The minute she got home, she ripped open the medium size box.

Inside were four outfits she started to design a year ago - just in time to wear to garba parties marking the Hindu festival Navarati.This is the first time Patel, 38, who works as a social worker with City of Toronto’s shelter services, has ordered the special outfits called chaniya-cholis from India. She used to buy them from local shops. But after checking out online photos and videos of United Way of Baroda, one of the biggest parties organized in India that she used to go to as a child, she got inspired. So, working with an Indian fashion design house, she came up with designs for four outfits made up of a skirt, blouse and a dupatta (long scarf), in bright shades of blue, green, yellow and red, with intricate embroidery and mirror-work. Each skirt has a flare made up of 16 metres of cloth.“You know, when it twirls, it comes up. It looks so pretty,” she says, unable to contain the glee in her voice.

The outfits arrived just in time for Patel to attend her first garba party of the season, which took place in Vaughan last Saturday. Over the next few weeks, she will attend seven more garba parties with a group of friends, planning their outings over their WhatsApp group called Garba Crew.Garba is a folk dance from Gujarat, an Indian province, and one of many ways of celebrating Navaratri, a Hindu festival celebrated over nine nights that typically takes place during the fall. This nine-night festival venerates Shakti, the female divine energy. In other parts of India, such as Bengal and other north-eastern provinces, devotees venerate Goddess Durga with religious and cultural events called Durga Puja; in northern and central India, musical productions of Ramleela (the story of Hindu god Ram, told over nine nights) are commonly organized. It all culminates on a tenth day marked as Dussehra or Vijaydashami, which marks the victory of good over evil. For many Hindus, Navaratri also marks the approach of Diwali.In the past few years, the garba party scene in Toronto has exploded into a riot of revelry and colour.

A few decades ago, these festivities were organized on a smaller scale by community groups or by local temples. Those smaller - and free - events at the temples continue. But parties organized by community groups have grown to major events.In fact, Sandip Dagli says Toronto likely has the largest number of garba parties outside of India, with at least 60 garba parties taking place across the GTA in Milton, Burlington and Barrie. Over here, the garba parties calendar starts a weekend or two before the Navaratri, and lasts several weekends after Vijaydashami, he explains.

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“In the beginning, we would rent a school gym, hire a local musical band. Tickets were about $3. This year we are doing two events. One is a Disco Dandiya on October 6, which has traditional and Bollywood music. About 1,500 people will come to that. The other is traditional garba, on Oct.

That will have 4,000 people attending,” he says. But their ticket prices are still nominal; $12 in advance, $15 at the door.

“We want whole families to come and have fun. There are dances, there will be food stalls. The type of food you don’t get at restaurants.

It starts from about 7:30 p.m. And goes till 1 a.m.”. The biggest garba party in Toronto, however, has to be the one featuring popular Gujarati musician Atul Purohit, who comes from India every year to sing popular folk tunes. It takes place Oct. 6 at the International Centre; close to 10,000 people are estimated to attend - including Patel and her Garba Crew.“In India, we used to go for nine nights, one after another. It’s continuous. But here, it’s only on weekends,” says Patel, who came to Canada in 2007.

“This is the only event that I really dress up for. Ever since I was a little girl, I get super-duper excited about garba.”. Watching Patel and her friends dance at garba parties, some people approached her about learning garba moves. So a year ago she added garba dance to other Indian dance classes she teaches out of her Brampton home studio.“Garba can look simple, but it’s not that simple, especially if you’ve never danced before,” she says. It involves dancing in a circle around the image of Goddess Durga (also known as Amba), garba has some basic steps involving hand claps and a stepping pattern. Seasoned dancers often add their own flourishes, such as double turns or mid-air spins. “If you know the basic steps, you can join any circle at a garba.”.

Get expert advice on life and relationships with the Star's Advice email newsletter.For young people, it’s also an event to check each other out. Patel laughs talking about the attention her nephew Deep, 22, and a student at Western University, gets.“When he’s dancing in our group, these girls they try and come in between and dance with him. They want to impress him. He is pretty cute,” she says, adding that one of her best friends in India found her husband at a garba party.For his part, Deep isn’t interested in checking out the girls as much as dancing the night away, dressed up in the traditional male attire of kediyu - dhoti pants, and an embroidered jacket that flares out at the waist.“It’s like a competition for me, a stamina thing,” he says. “I want to be the first one on the floor and stay till the end. I love to dance.”But that doesn’t stop the aunties from approaching him.“They’ll come and put some kajal (kohl) behind my ear,” he says, describing a gesture meant to ward off the evil eye.