Sukhawat Ali Khan
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Sukhawat Ali Khan, son of India
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i vocalist Ustad Salamat Ali Khan and nephew of Nazakat Ali Khan, is a classical singer Sham Chorasi gharana tradition, as well as a performer of North Indian and Pakistani classical music and related folk music. He began singing and playing the harmonium
at age seven and has performed around the world. He currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area where he performs in the world-fusion ensemble Shabaz (formerly the Ali Khan Band) with his sister Riffat Salamat and her husband Richard Michos.
About his heritage and music, Ali Khan has said:
Sukhawat's music was recently licensed for use by Surrealist animators the Hive of Dukes, who had recently heard Ali Khan's music online, for a Salvador Dali
-inspired cartoon called Living Evil. Sukhawat is currently playing in two music ensembles in the SF Bay Area: Ji featuring Sukhawat Ali Khan (Real Tribal) and Baraka Moon.
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
n-Pakistan
Pakistan
Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...
i vocalist Ustad Salamat Ali Khan and nephew of Nazakat Ali Khan, is a classical singer Sham Chorasi gharana tradition, as well as a performer of North Indian and Pakistani classical music and related folk music. He began singing and playing the harmonium
Harmonium
A harmonium is a free-standing keyboard instrument similar to a reed organ. Sound is produced by air being blown through sets of free reeds, resulting in a sound similar to that of an accordion...
at age seven and has performed around the world. He currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area where he performs in the world-fusion ensemble Shabaz (formerly the Ali Khan Band) with his sister Riffat Salamat and her husband Richard Michos.
About his heritage and music, Ali Khan has said:
Sukhawat's music was recently licensed for use by Surrealist animators the Hive of Dukes, who had recently heard Ali Khan's music online, for a Salvador Dali
Salvador Dalí
Salvador Domènec Felip Jacint Dalí i Domènech, Marquis de Púbol , commonly known as Salvador Dalí , was a prominent Spanish Catalan surrealist painter born in Figueres,Spain....
-inspired cartoon called Living Evil. Sukhawat is currently playing in two music ensembles in the SF Bay Area: Ji featuring Sukhawat Ali Khan (Real Tribal) and Baraka Moon.
Discography
- Taswir - 1998 (with the Ali Khan Band)
- Zindagi - 2000 (with the Ali Khan Band)
- Shabaz - 2001 (with Shabaz)
- Shukriya - 2007 (solo and with his Shukriya ensemble)