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 The
great grandson of the legendary Ustad Inayat Hussain Khan
Saheb, the  founder
of the Rampur Sahaswan Gharana, Rashid Khan was born on 1st
July, 1966 at Badaun, a small town in the state of Uttar Pradesh.
Rashid has fond memories of the town of Badaun and its surroundings
where he has spent his early days. The river which flows by
the town was a witness to the number of hours Rashid spent
by its side singing; the mazhars of Bare Sarkar and Chote
Sarkar where he still pays his respects on his visits to the
home town and the cemetary where his parents and young brother
have been laid to rest.
Rashid
had little or no interest in music initially. His talents
were first noticed by his uncle Ustad Ghulam Mustafa Khan
another great exponent of Hindusthani Classical music on hearing
his ocassional hummings. Rashid studied in Mumbai for about
an year whereafter he came back to his hometown. His tutelage
under his illustrious granduncle and guru, the late Ustad
Nissar Hussain Khan changed the course of his life & made
him what he is today. It was Ustad Nissar Hussain Khan who
nurtured the latent potential of Rashid through his training
in the traditional one-to-one manner, first at his own residence
at Badaun (Uttar Pradesh) and subsequently at The Sangeet
Research Academy in Calcutta.
Ustad
Nissar Hussain Khan was a strict disciplinarian, and the long
and arduous training under this guru made Rashid Khan a perfect
exponent of the Rampur-Sahaswan Gharana, which owes its allegiance
to the Senia traditions and has a great lineage of classical
vocalists like the great Ustads Bahadur Hussain Khan, Inayat
Hussain Khan, Fida Hussain Khan, Mushtaq Hussain Khan, Nissar
Hussain Khan.
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| Mustaq
Hussain Khan |
Haider
Khan |
Fida
Hussain Khan |
Nissar
Hussain Khan |
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Rashid
gave his first performance at the age of eleven, in 1977.
In 1979, he performed at the ITC Sangeet Sammmelan at New
Delhi. He has not looked back since and his growing popularity
has been reflected in his increasing participation in all
well known music conferences in India and extensive tours
the world over.
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