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Sarod Maestro Ustad Amjad Ali Khan ~ 80th Birthday Celebration

On 9th October, we celebrate the 80th birthday of the Sarod legend, Ustad Amjad Ali Khan Saheb. Navras Records and Sama Arts have been associated with him for over three decades in presenting many outstanding concerts and release of several of them on Compact Discs and DVDs over the years. Ustad Amjad Ali Khan was born in 1945 in the city of Gwalior and represents the sixth generation of a family of musicians traced back to Mohammad Hashmi Khan Bangash, a player of the instrument known as rabab (forerunner of the modern sarod) who moved to India from Afghanistan. Ustad Amjad Ali Khan has helped secure the sarod as one of the most popular instruments in India, established his own name as one of the leaders of Indian music and his fame has spread all over the world. Ustad Amjad Ali Khan (born 9th October 1945) was born into a classical music family (the Bangash lineage of the Senia Gharana) and among countless accolades he is the recipient of India’s top civilian awards of Padma Shree (1975), Padma Bhushan (1991) and Padma Vibhushan (2001) from the President of India, Sangeet Natak Akademi Award (1989) and Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship for 2011. The family lineage belongs to the Gwalior gharana. The Guardian referred to Amjad Ali Khan as “one of the last legends of Hindustani classical music.” We salute this icon and great master of Indian classical music as he enters his 9th decade. We wish him a long, healthy and a continuing musical life for many many years ahead. His contribution to the Indian classical music and its aesthetics is of exemplary nature. We at Navras Records and Sony Music India (where the Navras Catalogue and Sama Arts / Navras archives now reside) plan to bring out some more of his outstanding performances in the coming months and years. Here below we share with you excerpts of his rendition of Ragas Marwa and Durga from a Navras / Sama Arts Concert at London’s Barbican Centre on 25th July 1997 accompanied by Pandit Kumar Bose on Tabla. This content is from the archives to be published in the coming months by Sony Music India.