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Bismillah Khan

Bismillah Khan

Bismillah Khan has been played on NTS in shows including Raga Vibrations, featured first on 12 December 2016. Songs played include Bhairavee - Thumree, Raga: Multani and Chaiti - Dhun.

Ustad Bismillah Khan Sahib (Urdu: استاد بسم اللہ خان صاحب; Telugu:ఉస్తాద్ బిస్మిల్లా ఖాన్; March 21, 1916 – August 21, 2006) was an Indian shehnai maestro. He was the third classical musician to be awarded the Bharat Ratna (in 2001), the highest civilian honour in India and gained worldwide acclaim for playing the shehnai for more than eight decades

Bismillah Khan was perhaps single handedly responsible for making the shehnai a famous classical instrument. He brought the shehnai to the center stage of Indian music with his concert in the Calcutta All India Music Conference in 1937. He was credited with having almost monopoly over the instrument as he and the shehnai are almost synonyms. Khan is one of the finest musicians in post-independent Indian Classical music and one of the best examples of Hindu-Muslim unity in India and had played shenai to audience across the world.He was known to be devoted to his art form that he referred to shehnai as his begum, wife in Urdu, after his wife died. On his death, as an honour, his shehnai was also buried along with him. He was known for his vision of spreading peace and love through music.

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Bismillah Khan

Bismillah Khan has been played on NTS in shows including Raga Vibrations, featured first on 12 December 2016. Songs played include Bhairavee - Thumree, Raga: Multani and Chaiti - Dhun.

Ustad Bismillah Khan Sahib (Urdu: استاد بسم اللہ خان صاحب; Telugu:ఉస్తాద్ బిస్మిల్లా ఖాన్; March 21, 1916 – August 21, 2006) was an Indian shehnai maestro. He was the third classical musician to be awarded the Bharat Ratna (in 2001), the highest civilian honour in India and gained worldwide acclaim for playing the shehnai for more than eight decades

Bismillah Khan was perhaps single handedly responsible for making the shehnai a famous classical instrument. He brought the shehnai to the center stage of Indian music with his concert in the Calcutta All India Music Conference in 1937. He was credited with having almost monopoly over the instrument as he and the shehnai are almost synonyms. Khan is one of the finest musicians in post-independent Indian Classical music and one of the best examples of Hindu-Muslim unity in India and had played shenai to audience across the world.He was known to be devoted to his art form that he referred to shehnai as his begum, wife in Urdu, after his wife died. On his death, as an honour, his shehnai was also buried along with him. He was known for his vision of spreading peace and love through music.

Original source Last.fm

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Bhairavee - Thumree
Vilayat Khan, Bismillah Khan, Shantaprasad
His Master's Voice1967
Raga: Multani
Shehnai Nawaz Bismillah Khan
His Master's Voice1964
Chaiti - Dhun
Vilayat Khan, Bismillah Khan, Shantaprasad
His Master's Voice1967
Raga: Jai Jaiwanti
Ustad Bismillah Khan, Prof. V. G. Jog
His Master's Voice1965
Shehnai Gat–Raga Madhmat-Sarang
Bismillah Khan
His Master's Voice0
Raga Rageshwari - Alap, Vilambit Jhap Taal
Ustad Bismillah Khan
Music Today2005
Chaiti
Ustad Bismillah Khan
His Master's Voice1979