Sultan Khan (musician)
Ustādh Sultan Khan (born April 15, 1940 near Jaipur ; † November 27, 2011 in Mumbai , Maharashtra ) was an Indian sarang player and singer .
Life
Khan was the student of his father Gulab Khan, a sarangi master. He first appeared at the All-India Conference at the age of eleven. In 1974, like Ravi Shankar, he was involved in George Harrison's Dark Horse World Tour . He has won numerous prizes, such as the Sangeet Natak Academy Award twice , but also the Gold Medalist Award of Maharashtra and the American Academy of Artists Award 1998. He often appeared as the accompanist of Zakir Hussain , with whom he has also recorded several albums. He was also a member of the fusion group Tabla Beat Science , in which he played with Zakir Hussain and Bill Laswell , and worked with Nana Simopoulos , Jonas Hellborg and Fazal Qureshi . Sultan Khan was involved in the production of the music for several Indian films.
Khan was the teacher of Sukshinder Shinda and Ram Gopal Varma .
Awards
- 2010: Padma Bhushan
Web links
- Literature by and about Sultan Khan in the catalog of the German National Library
- Sultan Khan in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Regula Burckhardt Qureshi: Master musicians of India: hereditary sarangi players speak . Routledge, 2007, ISBN 0415972027 , p. 153.
- ↑ Sarangi player Ustad Sultan Khan passes away ( Memento of the original from June 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Simon Broughton et al. a., World Music: The Rough Guide 2000, ISBN = 1858286360
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Khan, Sultan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Indian sarangi player and singer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 15, 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | at Jaipur |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 27, 2011 |
| Place of death | Mumbai , Maharashtra , India |