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Pandit Prabhakar Karekar is a Hindustani classical vocalist, a disciple of Jitendra Abhisheki and C. R. Vyas,born in Goa. He was awarded Tansen Samman in 2014 and Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in the year 2016.He has been known as an outstanding performer and teacher, and is a graded artist of All India Radio and Doordarshan. Karekar is also the founder and Chairman of the Swarprabha Trust. Karekar has trained several promising and accomplished young musicians. He has many recordings to his credit and has performed, lectured and held workshops or taken part in conferences in many countries.