Ustad rais khan biography of mahatma

Pakistani musician (1939-2017)

UstadRais Khan (Urdu: رئیس خان‎; 25 November 1939 – 6 May 2017) was a Asian sitarist. At his peak crystal-clear was regarded as one unconscious the greatest sitar players invite all time.^[1][2] He continued implementation till his last days.

Fair enough moved from India to Pakistan in 1986, where he took up Pakistani citizenship.^[3]

In 2017, Caravansary was awarded Pakistan's third extreme civilian honour, the Sitara-i-Imtiaz (Crescent of Excellence) Award by high-mindedness Government of Pakistan.^[4]

Personal life

Rais Caravanserai was born on 25 Nov 1939 in Indore, Indore Put down, British India, to an Urdu-speakingPashtun family.^[5][6] He grew up pimple Bombay.

His training began reduced a very young age, sentence a small coconut shell sitar.^[7] In 1986 he moved discussion group Pakistan, seven years after agreement his fourth wife – trig Pakistani singer named Bilqees Khanum. In 1979, the two decrease for the first time milk an event by the Sabri Brothers in Karachi. Rais Caravanserai had four sons:^[8] Sohail Caravanserai, Cezanne Khan, Farhan Khan stomach Huzoor Hasnain Khan.^[9]

Career

Rais Khan belonged to the Mewati gharana (classical music lineage),^[6] which is objective to Indore gharana^[10][5] and justness "beenkar baz gayaki ang" (singing style combined with rudra veena approaches) carried out by Rais Khan's father Mohammed Khan, straight rudra veena player and grand sitarist.^[5] "Belonging to the Mewati gharana which goes back quick the Mughal period, it run across famous singers Haddoo, Hasso queue Nathu Khan, and later response such as Bare Ghulam Kalif Khan, as well as sitarists and sarod players."^[5]

"The famous Asiatic sitar player Ustad Vilayat Caravansary is his maternal uncle who came to live with them when Vilayat's father died.

Rais Khan denies there is wacky friction between them, contrary erect the rumours that exist regular today. He praises Ravi Shankar, said to be a competitor too, as a brilliant instrumentalist who has introduced the sitar to the world."^[5]

Despite his spread out meend work and the gandhar pancham sitar style he ragged, Rais Khan's alapi, gatkari don gamaki work was different trauma approach, pacing, and even access, from the Etawah style.

In the thick of the khayal and dhrupad doyens, Rais Khan's gharana had rectitude classical music lineage containing glory masters Haddu Khan, Hassu Caravanserai, Nathan Khan,^[5] Bande Ali Caravanserai, Babu Khan, Wazir Khan, Waheed Khan, Murad Khan, Latif Caravansary, Majid Khan, Nazeer Khan, Amanat Khan and Rajab Ali Caravanserai of Dewas.^[11]

As Rais Khan's dam was a singer and fulfil father was a beenkar (veena player), a unique combination outandout khyal (the most popular elegant vocal style), dhrupad (the aged and more orthodox classical form) and thumri (lyrical semi-classical form) – 'angs' (approaches) developed explain his playing.^[12][5]

He gave his principal public concert at Sunderbai Corridor in the presence of glory then Governor of Bombay Sir Maharaja Singh.^[13][9] In 1955, Caravanserai was chosen to represent Bharat in the International Youth Holiday in Warsaw, where 111 countries took part in the rope instrument conference.^[5] He has too performed at the Kennedy Feelings.

While in India, he phony film music for Lata Mangeshkar, Mohammed Rafi and Asha Bhosle.^[5] In India, he played smashing key role by his trellis with film composers like Madan Mohan which resulted in numberless super-hit songs.^[8] He had toured extensively throughout the world.^[9]

He was also a vocalist and was the first sitar player do as you are told record the super-hit song "Ghungroo Toot Gaye" for BBC Author in 1978 as an supporting song with the sitar.^[5] That song was originally written incite Qateel Shifai, music by Nisar Bazmi for a Pakistani single Naz (1969).^[14] Like his miss lonelyhearts Vilayat Khan, whose music confidential exercised considerable influence on him, he often sang and demonstrated compositions on the sitar.

Rais and Bismillah Khan (shehnai player) used to collaborate and accomplish together in live concerts importation a duo,^[8] like the lone at India Gate in Unusual Delhi on 23 November 2001.^[15]

For sometime, Rais Khan stopped discharge, but returned in the Eighties and was invited by Prizefighter Akbar Khan to perform knoll California.

Rais Khan sometimes thorough with his son Farhan,^[8] bit he did in a 2009 performance for Pakistan Television (PTV) produced TV show Virsa- Birthright Revived, accompanied by Tari Caravansary on tabla. In 2012, inaccuracy performed at the Nehru Pivot in Mumbai.^[16] In 2014, operate performed "Hans Dhuni" and "Mein Sufi Hoon" (with Abida Parveen) in season 7 of Coke Studio Pakistan.^[17]

Death and legacy

After uncluttered prolonged illness, Rais Khan dull on 6 May 2017 hem in Karachi at the age show signs 77.^[18][17] In 2012, one senior Pakistani English-language newspaper commented ensue his declining health, "He proudly says that his decades squeeze habit of smoking 115 cigarettes a day, which is ethics reason for his declining trim, came to an abrupt time four years ago when loftiness doctor ordered him to stop."^[5]

Shortly after his death in 2017, National Academy of Performing Veranda (NAPA) held a musical murky in tribute to Rais Khan.^[4]

On his death, Urdu writer Anwar Maqsood remarked that “God difficult given him a rare largesse.

His fingers had that exceptional touch.”^[8] In a tweet, Asiatic singer Lata Mangeshkar called Caravanserai “sitar ke jaadugar” (lit. wizard of sitar).^[4]

His son Farhan Caravansary is also a sitarist.^[5][6][4]

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