Balwant Gurunay's video: Shri Krishna Bhajan sung by Ustad Rashid Khan presented by Balwant Gurunay wmv

Ustad 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, 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. His talents were first noticed by his uncle Ustad Ghulam Mustafa Khan another great exponent of Hindusthani Classical music on hearing his ocassional hummings. His tutelage under his illustrious Grand uncle 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 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.