Alla Rakha Biography In English Pdf Life Story 1919 – 2000

• The talented Alarkha Khan is not only an accomplished tabla-player but also a successful music director.
• You have also done music-direction of many films under the name of AR Qureshi.
• You also sing very well and have special expertise in Thumri of Punjab Ang. Your voice is very melodious.
• Your melodiousness is reflected in your tabla accompaniment. You are counted among high class tabla players.
• Although you represent the Punjab Gharana and the lyrics of the Punjab Gharana are as open as a pakhawaj, but you have developed a great softness in your hand.
• Your program continues to be broadcast from each center of All India Radio. You have raised the head of India even in foreign countries.

Birth Details –

Place – Ghagwal Village, Jammu and Kashmir

Date of Birth – 29 April 1919

Marital Status – Married

Nationality – Indian

Alla Rakha Biography In English

Physical Appearance –

Eye Color – Black

Hair Color – Black

Family

Wife – Bavi Begum

Sons – Zakir Hussain, Fazal Qureshi and Taufiq Qureshi

Daughter- Khurshid Aulia née Qureshi, Razia, Ruhi Bano

Teacher – Mian Kadir Baksh

Personal Life And Education –

• Ustad Allarakha Khan Qureshi was born in Ghagwal village Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir.
• His mother tongue was Dogri and his family was Muslim Dogra, although most of the Dogra clans around him were Hindu.
• Growing up on a farm, Ustad Allarakha was always influenced by music, admiring the traveling musicians he occasionally had the opportunity to see.
• His father, at that time, looked down upon his boy learning to sing or play a musical instrument as a profession, because of the family’s origins as Dogras of Jammu.
• At the age of 12, Ustad Alla Rakha ran away from home to live with his uncle in the nearby city of Gurdaspur to pursue his passion for music.
• With little chance for grooming and appreciation, the determined young lad ran away from home, began his training in tabla with Mian Kader Baksh of the Punjab gharana of tabla players.
• Mian Qadir Baksh, who had no sons, formally adopted Allah Rakha and called him the next head of the Punjab gharana of tabla players.
• He was married to his cousin Bavi Begum.
• Their marriage produced three sons, Zakir Hussain, Fazal Qureshi and Taufiq Qureshi; two daughters, Khurshid Aulia née Qureshi and Razia; and nine grandchildren.
• They all escape him except Razia; This was the news of his death a day before what is believed to be the cause of his fatal heart attack.
• Allah Rakha had a third daughter named Roohi Bano who was born in Pakistan and achieved “legendary” status in television and film acting.

Career-

• Ustad Allarakha Qureshi started his career as an accompanist in Lahore and then in 1936 as an employee of All India Radio, Delhi.
• but later moved to Bombay in 1940, played the station’s first tabla solo and raised the instrument’s status in the process.
• Soon after, he also started composing music for Hindi films under the name AR Qureshi.
• He composed for a total of 23 films between 1943 and 1964.
• Flyer for an October 1967 concert by Shankar and Rekha (left), held four months after their performance at the Monterey Pop Festival.
• His famous and spellbinding performance at the Woodstock Festival in 1969 served to introduce classical Indian music to general Western audiences.

Global Impact

• Alla Rakha popularized the art of tabla around the world, raising the instrument’s status and respectability.
• Leading American percussionists in rock and roll, such as Mickey Hart of the Grateful Dead, admired him and studied his technique, also benefiting greatly from solo meetings.
• Alla Rakha’s partnership with Ravi Shankar began in the early 1950s.

Awards –

• 1977 – Padma Shri
• 1982 – Natak Akademi Award

other information –

• Date of death – 3 February 2000
• Place – Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

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