Ustad Ghulam Mustafa Khan
Badayun is a small city in the Indian state of Uttar
Pradesh. It’s most famous citizen was a scholar named, Abdul Qadir Baduni, who wrote several histories of Muslim India and
of the rule of the grandest of the Mughal rulers of India, Akbar. Although he translated
the Hindu epic, Ramayana into Persian
he remained an orthodox Muslim and found many of Akbar’s religious and social reforms unacceptable. This brought him into a sort of intellectual
and professional rivalry with Akbar’s greatest
contemporary historian and vizier Abul Fazl who applauded the Emperor’s
innovative musings.
Badayun, which prides itself on being ‘the land of Sufis’ is
also famous these days for being the birth place of several eminent classical
musicians. The contemporary doyen of the Rampur gharana Ustad Rashid Khan,
whom the Washerman’s Dog highlighted
in its last post, was born in Badayun.
His uncle and teacher Ustad
Ghulam Mustafa Khan also calls Badayun home. And it is some of his deeply moving singing
that we showcase tonight.
Ustad Ghulam Mustafa Khan
was born on March 3, 1931 in Badayun. He belongs to the Rampur-Sahaswan
gharana and is the son of Waris
Hussain Khan and grandson of Inayat Hussain Khan
of Sahaswan gharana. He has been
associated with the Hindi film industry and as a teacher has trained several
noted playback and classical singers.
He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1991,
followed by Padma Bhushan,
the third highest civilian award of India in 2006. In 2003 he was awarded the Sangeet Natak
Akademi Award highest Indian recognition given to practicing artists
given by Sangeet Natak
Akademi, India's National Academy for Music, Dance and Drama.
Track
Listing:
01.Raga
Bihag
02. Raga
Mian ki Todi
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Monday, April 9, 2012
Son of Badayun: Ustad Ghulam Mustafa Khan
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