sangeeta martand pandit jasraj ji is one of the most important musicians in the history of indian classical music his golden voice soaked with spirituality and emotion in addition to the essence of ragas in every phrase he sang mesmerised anyone who listened to him irrespective of whether they had any musical background or not musically he was like an ocean by himself whether he sang an alaap or a composition he added his own extra dimension to everything he sang which gave panditjis individualistic stamp his demise is an irreparable loss to the world of music and he will be missed immensely by all the music lovers i was fortunate to know him well sharing the platform and quite often performing together in jugalbandis and other special projects whether it was for a film or a fusion project or special video projects with various artists like bharat symphony vasudhaiva kutumbakam and vaishnava janato which i composed i remember meeting him for the first time in new jersey almost three decades ago where he performed after my concert that started my admiration for him and i wanted him to be a part of the lakshminarayana global music festival lgmf as a performer and as an advisor i have great memories of him performing for the lakshminarayana global music festival both in india and usa i also enjoyed performing in triranga concert series organised by durga jasraj where she had different combinations of artists with pandit ji including myself hari ji shiv ji and u srinivas the iconic lyricist javed akthar was also a part of the triranga concert series for the lakshminarayana global music festival he performed his own solo concerts and jugalbandis one of our jugalbandi concerts was recorded and released in 2004 where we played raga sarasangi followed by his famous bhajan govind damodar madhaveti we had the great privilege of giving him the lakshminarayana international award in 2004 which was presented by sri sm krishna in bangalore in 2007 i did a special album for the 60th year of indias independence one of the compositions vaishnava janato was recorded with various artists and a video was produced and released his contribution to the video was unparallel since then i had the pleasure of doing different collaborative projects not only classical but also jugalbandis and fusion a few months ago when we released a collaborative project bharat symphony vasudhaiva kutumbakam i wanted his golden voice to be in the beginning of the video this was a very special project for me since i had the london symphony orchestra recording for this project which was a global music composition with indian classical western classical and bollywood personalities since he was in usa at that time and because of the pandemic and the lockdown we had to record the project from our homes thanks to tripti ji jasraj jis disciple for making it possible by sending the audio and video recordings from usa this video was released on may