Sarod maestro Ustad Ali Akbar Khan passed away
Ustad Ali Akbar Khan died on Friday in San Francisco, USA. 88-year-old Khan died at his music centre at 10 am IST.Ustad Khan is survived by wife Mary, three sons and daughter.
Khan was the first to cut a long player record of Indian classical music in the US and to give a sarod recital on American TV. Khan was also the first Indian musician to receive the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 1991 and was nominated for Grammy Awards five times between 1970 to 1998
Ali Akbar Khan Biography
Born on April 14, 1922 in Shibpur village of Comilla district, now in Bangladesh, Khan took up music at the age of three, learning vocal music from his father and percussion from his uncle, Fakir Aftabuddin. His father also trained him in several other instruments, but Khan decided to concentrate on the sarodand on vocals. A recipient of Padma Vibhushan and Padma Bhushan, Khan gave his first public performance in Allahabad at the age 13 and made his first gramophone recording in Lucknow [Images] when he was in his early twenties.
Khan was the first to cut a long player record of Indian classical music in the US and to give a sarod recital on American TV. Khan was also the first Indian musician to receive the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 1991 and was nominated for Grammy Awards five times between 1970 to 1998
Ali Akbar Khan Biography
Born on April 14, 1922 in Shibpur village of Comilla district, now in Bangladesh, Khan took up music at the age of three, learning vocal music from his father and percussion from his uncle, Fakir Aftabuddin. His father also trained him in several other instruments, but Khan decided to concentrate on the sarodand on vocals. A recipient of Padma Vibhushan and Padma Bhushan, Khan gave his first public performance in Allahabad at the age 13 and made his first gramophone recording in Lucknow [Images] when he was in his early twenties.
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