Sujan khan biography of william hill

Agra Gharana – Singers of Indian Classical Music

Alakhdas and Mulukdas were the first musician of Agra gharana of Indian classical music but a definite shape and form was given by Haji Sujan Khan, a junior contemporary of Mia Tansen. Later Gaghe Khuda bux, Ghulam Abbas Khan and Kallan khan took the gharana forward. Khuda Bux had learnt Khayals from Nathan Pirbux of Gwalior and so both Agra and Gwalior gayakis of Indian classical music have several features in common particularly in voice production. In the next generation came Faiyyaz Khan, Tassaduq Hussain, Nathan Khan followed by Vilayat Hussain Khan. Of them all, Faiyyaz khan was the brightest jewel in the crown of the Agra gharana singers of Indian Classical music. The author had the rare and good fortune, in his formative years, of receiving guidance from the Ustad then a Court singing musician of Baroda Durbar, and also from Ustad Abid Hussain Binkar (Jaipur gharana) of Baroda Durbar.

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