Legendary Indian singer Ustad Rashid Khan passes away – FilmyVoice
Ustad Rashid Khan, the subcontinent’s one of the crucial common and revered Indian classical singers, handed away on Tuesday after battling with most cancers. He was 55.
The celebrated music maestro was present process therapy for prostate most cancers at a hospital in Kolkata, experiences Hindustan Instances. He was placed on a ventilator and was receiving oxygen assist, earlier than respiration his final at 3:45pm (native time).
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee expressed her deep condolence over the loss of life of the revered artist, saying: “It is a nice loss for your entire nation and your entire music fraternity. I’m in lots of ache as I nonetheless cannot imagine that Rashid Khan is not any extra.”
Ustad Rashid Khan was born in Sahaswan, Badayun, Uttar Pradesh on July 1, 1968. Belonging to the Rampur-Sahaswan gharana (a selected model of singing which options medium-slow tempos, a full-throated voice and complicated rhythmic play) – he was the great-grandson of the legendary Ustad Inayat Hussain Khan Sahab, the founding father of the Rampur-Sahaswan Gharana.
He was additionally the nephew of Ustad Ghulam Mustafa Khan and obtained his preliminary coaching from his maternal grand-uncle Ustad Nissar Hussain Khan.
Rashid Khan carried out his debut live performance on the age of 11 and have become part of the ITC Sangeet Analysis Academy (SRA) in Kolkata when Nissar Hussain Khan transitioned to the academy. He was formally acknowledged as a musician on the academy by the age of 26.
The maestro experimented with combining typical Hindustani music with lighter musical kinds, together with performances with Western instrumentalist Louis Banks. He additionally portrayed his versatility by enjoying in Jugalbandis (duets) alongside many acclaimed musicians together with sitarist Shahid Parvez and others.
Nonetheless, his stardom within the mainstream skyrocketed along with his much-acclaimed tune “Aaoge Jab Tum” from the 2007 Bollywood movie “Jab We Met”, starring Shahid Kapoor and Kareena Kapoor and directed by Imtiaz Ali.
After that, he additionally carried out a number of common tracks for Bollywood, notably “Allah Hello Rahem” (My Title is Khan), “Poore se zara sa” (Mausam), “Sajna” (Bapi Bari Ja), “Jheeni Re Jheeni” (Issaq) and “Bol Ke Lab Azad Hain” (Manto), to call a number of.
The revered music maestro has additionally carried out in Bangladesh a number of instances, most notably at a number of editions of the Bengal Classical Music Pageant in Dhaka.
For his contribution to the subcontinent’s music trade, Ustad Rashid Khan was awarded a number of awards, together with India’s third-highest civilian award Padma Bhushan (2022), the fourth-highest civilian award Padma Shri (2006) and Banga Bhushan (2012), essentially the most prestigious award in Kolkata.
