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He started playing the sitar from four years of age. His first broadcast was at the age of eighteen at the All India Radio in 1953. [ 14 ] He created 8 new Ragas viz. Bisweswari, Palas-Sarang, Anuranjani, Ashiqui Lalit, Swanandeswari, Kalyani Bilawal, Shivamanjari and Prabhati Manjari (in memory of his wife Manju).
The Etawah gharana is a North Indian school of sitar and surbahar music and named after a small town close to Agra where Imdad Khan (1848–1920) lived. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is also known as Imdadkhani gharana in the honour of its founder, Imdad Khan .
Khan learnt music from his father, Ashiq Ali Khan, who had learned sitar from the 19th century player Barkatullah Khan, a descendant of Masit Sen of Delhi, the inventor of the Masitkhani gat (the major style of slow musical composition in sitar playing) [1] His name became synonymous with the Senia style [2] although he may actually have practised an even more austere style than his ...
Nishat Khan was born on 25 October 1960 in Park Circus area of Kolkata, India in a house on a road named after his grandfather 'Ustad Enayat Khan Avenue'.He is the son of the sitar player Imrat Khan and the nephew of the legendary sitar player Vilayat Khan, who come from the leading family of instrumental music in the North Indian classical tradition, the Etawah gharana.
Ustad Vilayat Khan (28 August 1928 – 13 March 2004) was an Indian classical sitar player, [1] [2] considered by many to be the greatest sitarist of his age. [3] Along with Imdad Khan, Enayat Khan, and Imrat Khan, he is credited with the creation and development of gayaki ang (a technique that emulates the vocal melisma of Hindustani classical music) on the sitar.
An internationally accomplished sitar player, [4] Asad has experimented with Indian classical music and western genres such as jazz, flamenco, rock and classical. [5] He has shared the stage with Indian artist A. R. Rahman, and with several western artists including Herbie Hancock, India Arie, Ann Marie Calhoun, Barry Manilow, Colbie Caillat and Jamiroquai.
Enayat Khan was born in 1894 in the North-Western Provinces, British India into a family of musicians. His father was the great sitar maestro Imdad Khan, who taught him the sitar and surbahar (bass sitar) in the family style, known as the Imdadkhani Gharana or Etawah Gharana (music school origin), [3] named after a small village near Agra called Etawah.
His grandfather Rahimat Khan [1] who was awarded the 'Sitar Ratna' Rahimat Khan a legendary sitar artist was a disciple of Ustad bande ali khan. [2] Shafique Khan had a fortune of long and traditional grooming from young age from his father Ustad Abdul Karim Khan who was head of faculty of instrumental music in Karnatak University college of music.