Swami Haridas
Swami Haridas was a musician. He was regarded a musician saint because of his strong influence on north Indian classical music. He is credited with a large body of devotional compositions including Dhrupad compositions. He is considered to be the guru of Tansen. Swami Haridas also developed the Haridasi school of mysticism and had many spiritual disciples. According to one school of thought he was born in 1480 A.D. in Rajpur near Brindavan. According to another school of thought Haridas' father was a Saraswat Brahmin from Multan. The family migrated to a village called Khairwali Sarak, near Aligarh in Uttar Pradesh. Haridas was born there in 1512 A.D. and the place is now called Haridaspur.
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