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 Rashid Khan is one of North India's most admired
classical vocalists. His voice is a finely honed instrument
over which the singer has absolute control, as he
sustains a note across a phrase or modulates each
syllable with remarkable precision.
The
great grandson of the legendary Ustad Inayat Hussain Khan
Saheb, the founder of the Rampur Sahaswan Gharana,
Rashid Khan was born on 1st July, 1966 at Badaun, a
small town in the state of Uttar Pradesh.
Under the tutelage of Ustad
Nissar Hussain Khan, the Sahaswan Gharana maestro,
Rashid has metamorphosed from a gawky, groaning
child to an artiste of unbelievable maturity, vocal
prowess and artistry.
Rashid's alap is ticklish imaginative,
his rhythmic play pulsating and the cascades of his
powerful, lightening, swift taans unimaginable until
actually heard. His internalization of raga-bbav is
uncanny. Rashid Khan has been hailed as a great
successor to the Bade Ghulam Ali Khan - Ameer Khan
generation - an era today almost given up as lost.
He had truly arrived on the scene when Pt.
Bhimsen Joshi heard him at a concert in early
1988 and proclaimed that there is now at least one
person in sight who is an assurance for the future
of Hindustani Vocal Music. |
