Sukhawat Ali Khan

Indian traditional singer Sukhawat (pronounced sue-ka-vat) Ali Khan may be the child of Ustad Salamat Ali Khan as well as the nephew of Nazakat Ali Khan; his dad and uncle had been famed performers who toured the entire world, referred to as the “Ali Brothers.” He was drawn to music young and began monitoring the harmonium at seven. At ten, he and his sibling Shafqat Ali Khan had been singing on an area radio train station in Lahore, Pakistan, starting a profession that discovered him carrying out internationally. Ultimately, he settled within the SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA Bay region, where he trained Indian traditional music. By 1998, he previously teamed along with his sister, Riffat Salamat, and her spouse, Richard Michos, within the Ali Khan Music group, which released two albums, Taswir and Zindagi, then changed its name to Shabaz in order to avoid misunderstandings with other performers called “Ali Khan,” such as for example Nusrat Fatah Ali Khan (a member of family), and released another recording, Shabaz. On July 24, 2007, Megawave Information, inside a licensing cope with Jah Nur Music, released Sukhawat Ali Khan’s debut single album, Shukriya, within the U.S.