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‘Yaad Piya Ki Aaye’ to ‘Aoge Jab Tum O Saajna’ – Rashid Khan, the traditionalist with a modern approach, resonated with a larger audience
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‘Yaad Piya Ki Aaye’ to ‘Aoge Jab Tum O Saajna’ – Rashid Khan, the traditionalist with a modern approach, resonated with a larger audience
A tribute to Ustad Rashid Khan: A Music Maestro's Journey From Debut at 11 to Timeless Legacy
He could captivate the audience and eradicate the thin line between a structured format and the playfulness of a classical composition while his voice moved through the shades of ragas
Khan was, in the truest sense, a modernist - using a 'traditional' form of music, and making it temporally not just relevant but seemingly a mandatory part of the zeitgeist. Bhimsen Joshi had pointed out that in singers like him, Hindustani music was secure. Perhaps of all the arts, great vocal music retains this quality of 'aliveness'.
The Patiala gharana popularised the thumri. But it has also been recorded by Ajoy Chakraborty, Rashid Khan, Shobha Gurtu and the Wadali Brothers, among others.