Ram Narayan was born on 25 December 1927 in Amber village, near Udaipur in northwestern India [REF].
At about ten years of age, Narayan learned the basics of dhrupad, the oldest genre of Hindustani classical music, by studying and imitating the practice of sarangi player Uday Lal of Udaipur, a student of dhrupad singers Allabande and Zakiruddin Dagar [REF].