Ustad Amir Khan... Tarana

Amir Khan was born in a family of musicians in Indore, India His father, Shahmir Khan, a sarangi player of the Bhendibazaar gharana, served at the court of the Holkars of Indore. His grandfather, Change Khan, was a singer in the court of Bahadurshah Zafar. Amir Ali's mother died when he was nine years old. He had a younger brother, Bashir, a sarangi player at the Indore station of All India Radio.
He was initially trained in the sarangi by his father. However, seeing his interest in vocal music, his father gradually devoted more time to vocal training, focusing on the Merukhand technique. Amir Ali was exposed at an early age to many different styles, since just about every musician who visited Indore would come to their house, and there would be mehfils at their place on a regular basis. Also, he learnt the basics of tabla playing from one of his maternal uncles, who was a tabla player. Amir Ali's father died in 1937.
Amir Khan moved to Bombay in 1934, and there he gave a few concerts and cut about half a dozen 78-rpm records. Later, he lived for some time in Delhi and Calcutta, but after the partition of India he moved back to Bombay.Singing career

Amir Khan developed his own singing style, incorporating the styles of Abdul Waheed Khan, Rajab Ali Khan and Aman Ali Khan. This unique style, known as the Indore Gharana, blends the spiritual flavor and grandeur of dhrupad with the ornate vividness of khayal. He presented an aesthetically detailed badhat (progression) in ati-vilambit laya (very slow tempo), followed by sargams, taans and bol-taans, including Merukhandi patterns, and finally a madhyalaya or drut laya (medium or fast tempo) chhota khayal or a rubaidaar tarana. His performances had an understated elegance, reverence, restrained passion and an utter lack of showmanship that both moved and awed listeners.[3] He believed that poetry was important in khyal compositions, and with his pen name, Sur Rang ("colored in swara"), he has left several compositions.
He helped popularize the tarana, as well as compositions in Persian. He often used the Jhoomra and Ektaal taals, and generally preferred a simple 'theka' from the tabla accompanist. As in the case of Bade Ghulam Ali Khan, Amir Khan's initial sarangi training was important in establishing him as a great singer, showing up in his intricate taans. Even though he had been trained in the sarangi, he generally performed khayals and taranas with only a tanpura and tabla for accompaniment. Sometimes he had a subdued harmonium accompaniment, but almost never used the sarangi.
Besides singing in concerts, Amir Khan also sang film songs in ragas, most notably for the films Baiju Bawra, Kshudhita Pashan, Shabaab, and Jhanak Jhanak Payal Baaje. He also sang a ghazal Rahiye Ab Aisi Jagah for a documentary on Ghalib.
His disciples include Pandit Amarnath, A. Kanan, Srikant Bakre, Singh Brothers, Mukund Goswami, Gajendra Bakshi, Kankana Banerjee, Pradyumna Kumud Mukherjee and Poorabi Mukherjee, Hridaynath Mangeshkar, Akhtar Sadmani, Amarjeet Kaur, Ajit Singh Paintal, Bhimsen Sharma, Munir Khan, and Kamal Bose. His style has also influenced many other singers and instrumentalists, including Rashid Khan, Mahendra Toke, Shanti Sharma, Gokulotsavji Maharaj, Nikhil Banerjee and the Imdadkhani gharana. Although he referred to his style as the Indore Gharana, he was a firm believer of absorbing elements from various gharanas.
Amir Khan was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1967 and the Padma Bhushan in 1971.
Personal life
Amir Khan's first marriage was to Zeenat, sister of the sitar player, Ustad Vilayat Khan. From this marriage, which eventually failed and ended in separation, he had a daughter, Farida. His second marriage was to Munni Bai, who gave birth to a son, Ekram Ahmed. Around 1965, Khansaheb married Raisa Begum, daughter of the thumri singer, Mushtari Begum of Agra. He had expected that Munni Begum would accept the third wife; however, Munni disappeared and it is rumored that she committed suicide.[9] With Raisa he had a son, Haider Amir, later called Shahbaz Khan.
Khan died a premature death in a car accident in Calcutta.

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[jalzala]

Raag is Hansdhwani.

[IMIRZA777]

@jalzala Thanks.

[guru8351]

@Gigirox14 hamwandwani i think

[classicalgem]

Well sung and a perfectly recorded music. He was a great vocalist.

[Gigirox14]

what raag is this??

[kk10061]

mirza ji what you have done .this rag is my favourit remeber .lata jee with mannaday JA to se nahi bolu kahnia aha aha .sa re ga pa ni sa sa ni pa ga re sa this is a aurav that means only 5 sur arohi and avrohi thankyou mirza sahib

[Asiftabrez]

SUPER HITS POSTING.

[jasbongy]

Mirza ji, i salute you for this REAL MUSIC upload. Amir Khan 's voice, his singing style, is very elegant ,royal,as you have put it in your excellent Info., His singing is very very soothing and one can listen to it again and again . I think his singing is very divine and it brings one near to divinity.Video presentation is also beautiful.

Thanks. With respect. Sarla.

[chamogaa]

Virtuosity supreme, showing extraordinarily smooth command of very, very difficult raaga notes. Lataji's song Jaa Tose Nahin Bolun Kanhaiya is akin to this composition.Thanks, Mirzaji.

[salildixit67]

fantastic .

thanks for posting .