Aashish Khan

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Aashish Khan Debsharma
Sarode
Years active1970–present

Aashish Khan Debsharma (born 5 December 1939) is an

University of California at Santa Cruz, in the United States
.

As the grandson of Allauddin Khan, he collaborated with musicians such as Ravi Shankar and The Beatles. Beyond Indian classical music, he and his brother Pranesh Khan also composed disco music for the album Disco Jazz (1982), sung by Rupa Biswas.

Family and life

Khan was born to a

Maihar Gharana" or "Senia Maihar School" of Indian classical music, was a royal court musician. His mother the late Zubeida Begum was Ali Akbar Khan's first wife. He was initiated into Hindustani classical music at the age of five by his grandfather. His training later continued under the guidance of his father Ali Akbar Khan, and his aunt, Annapurna Devi
.

Career

Khan grew up in

Calcutta. Since then, he has performed at major venues of classical music and world music both in the Indian subcontinent
and abroad.

Khan is also a founder of the Indo-American musical group Shanti with tabla player Ustad Zakir Hussain in 1969, and later, of the fusion group, "The Third Eye". In "Shanti", Aashish Khan is featured playing the acoustic Sarode sometimes through a fender guitar amplifier with vibrato effect.

Under

Apur Sansar, Parash Pathar, Jalsaghar, and Richard Attenborough's film Gandhi. He has also played with Maurice Jarre on John Huston's film The Man Who Would be King, David Lean's A Passage to India, and composed the music for Tapan Sinha
's films, Joturgriha (for which he received Best Film Score Award) and Aadmi Aurat.

In the early 1980s, he and his brother Pranesh Khan took an interest in

Pakistani pop singer Nazia Hassan. The brothers composed disco music for a project called Disco Jazz, with "Aaj Shanibar" as its showpiece. While in Canada that year, they saw Rupa Biswas perform at the University of Calgary and approached her to perform vocals for the project. The album Disco Jazz was completed in 1981 and released in 1982. While not a commercial success at the time, Disco Jazz was later rediscovered via the Internet in 2019 and gained international popularity.[2] Pitchfork noted the Bengali language song "Aaj Shanibar" contains "touches of what would now be considered Balearic beat music, with its expansive and hypnotic musical interludes."[3]

During 1989–1990, Khan served as the Composer and Conductor for the National Orchestra of All India Radio, New Delhi, India.

Collaborations

Khan has collaborated with such diverse western musicians as

Ustad Sultan Khan
.

Teaching

Khan is a music teacher, currently serving as adjunct professor of Indian Classical Music at the

University of California at Santa Cruz, United States. He has formerly taught at the faculties of the Ali Akbar College of Music in San Rafael, California, University of Alberta in Canada and the University of Washington, Seattle
. While pursuing a busy career as a concert artist and composer, he teaches students throughout the US, Canada, Europe, and Africa, as well as India. Many of his students have established themselves as stage performers in India and abroad.

He presently divides his time principally between

Calcutta
, and California, where most of his students and disciples are located.

He has established a school under his name in Kolkata : Aashish Khan School of World Music.

Recognition

He has been awarded the Fellowship of the

Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, the UK's highest society in Asian arts and culture.[4]

Religious conversion

Khan was raised

Times of India newspaper in an e-mail: "I do not support his (Aashish's) choice. Unfortunately, many statements made by my son in the newspaper regarding the history of my family are incorrect." He stated that their family has been Muslim for many generations, and will remain Muslims.[6]

Discography

With George Harrison:

References

  1. ^ "2006 Grammy Winners". Grammy Awards. Retrieved 14 December 2023.
  2. ^ "Rupa, the voice of "Aaj Shanibar", speaks out after 40 years". Wax Poetics. 16 March 2021. Retrieved 15 June 2023.
  3. ^ "How a Long-Lost Indian Disco Record Won Over Crate Diggers and Cracked the YouTube Algorithm". Pitchfork. 22 January 2020. Retrieved 15 June 2023.
  4. ^ [1] Archived 8 August 2014 at the Wayback Machine Royal Asiatic Society News
  5. ^ Staff. “Ustad Aashish Khan Returns to Roots.” One India, 22 Aug. 2006, .
  6. ^ We were always hindu. Archived 25 September 2008 at the Wayback Machine The Times of India – 1 September 2006
  7. ^ "Young master of the sarod". Amazon.

External links

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