Raga bihag of ustad rashid khan biography

Ustad Rashid Khan born 1 July [1] is an Indian classical musician in the Hindustani music tradition. He belongs to the Rampur-Sahaswan gharana, and is the great-grandson of gharana founder Inayat Hussain Khan. He is married to Soma Khan. He received his initial training from his maternal grand-uncle, Ustad Nissar Hussain Khan — He is also the nephew of Ustad Ghulam Mustafa Khan.

As a child he had little interest in music.

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His uncle Ghulam Mustafa Khan was among the first to note his musical talents, and for some time trained him in Mumbai. A strict disciplinarian, Nissar Hussain Khan would insist on voice training Swar Sadhana from four in the morning, and make Rashid practice one note of the scale for hours on end. Although Rashid detested these lessons as a child, but the disciplined training shows in his easy mastery of taan and layakaari today.

It was not until he was 18 that Rashid began to truly enjoy his musical training. Career Rashid Khan gave his first concert at age eleven, and the following year, , he performed at an ITC concert in Delhi.