Ali Akbar Khan was Born in 1922 in Shibpore, East Bengal, now Bangladesh, as son of the legendary Acharya Baba Allauddin Khan;
died at 87 at his home in San Francisco on June 18, 2009, having
suffered four years of kidney-related illness. His vocal training began
at 3 and, after studying the Surbahar, Sitar and Tabla, focused on the Sarod.
Ali Akbar Khan was one of today's most accomplished Indian classical musicians. Late American violinist Yehudi Menuhin,
who became one of his earliest champions in the West, said he
considered Ali Akbar Khan "an absolute genius, the greatest musician in
the world." Regarded as a "National Living Treasure" in India, he is
admired by both Eastern and Western musicians for his brilliant
compositions and his mastery of the Sarod (a beautiful, 25-stringed
Indian instrument).
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