1. Shujaat Khan belongs to the Imdadkhani gharana, called Etawah gharana school of music.
16 Facts About Shujaat Khan
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Shujaat Khan has recorded over 100 albums and was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best World Music Album for his work with the band Ghazal with Iranian musician Kayhan Kalhor.
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Shujaat Khan had privilege of being influenced by great artists like Ustaad Amir Khan, Pandit Bhimsen Joshi, Vidushi Kishori Amonkar and many more.
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Shujaat Khan has musical pedigree that extends back to seven generations: his grandfather, Ustad Enayat Khan; his great-grandfather, Ustad Imdad Khan; and his great-great-grandfather, Ustad Sahebdad Khan - all leading artists and torchbearers of the Imdadkhani gharana with its roots from Naugaon from Uttar Pradesh, India.
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Shujaat Khan's forefathers lived in Saharanpur, Agra, Etawah, Varanasi, Indore, Kolkata, Gouripur, Delhi, Lucknow, Mumbai, Shimla and Dehradun.
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Shujaat Khan has a brother, sitarist Hidayat Khan and two sisters Sufi singer, Zila Khan and Yaman Khan.
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Shujaat Khan is married to Parveen Khan and their son Azaan is a music composer.
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Shujaat Husain Khan gave his first concert at the age of 6 at Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai.
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Shujaat Hussain Khan has performed at numerous music festivals in India and has traveled around the world performing in Asia, Africa, North America and Europe.
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Shujaat Khan appeared in a program called Classical Studio under the Saregama label.
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Shujaat Khan is known for his exceptional voice, which he uses for singing folk songs, including the album Lajo Lajo, as well as poetry, as in Hazaron Khwahishen.
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Shujaat Khan was featured in the concerts celebrating India's 60th anniversary of independence in 2007, and performed at the Carnegie Hall, New York City with the Iranian musician Kayhan Kalhor Paramount Theater, Seattle, and Meyers Symphony Theater, Dallas.
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Shujaat Khan has been invited as visiting faculty at the Dartington School of Music in England, the University of Washington in Seattle, and at UCLA, Los Angeles.
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Shujaat Khan is known as a fearless collaborator, lately having done wide-ranging concerts with artists as diverse as Karsh Kale to a successful 'Jugalbandi' with pioneer Hindustani vocalist Ustad Rashid Khan.
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Shujaat Khan collaborated in 2014 on Persian traditional music album Beyond Any Form.
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Shujaat Khan has over 100 musical releases on a variety of international labels; and a video called Khandan.