Shahid Parvez

The sitar legend, Ustad Vilayat Khan[2] resurrected and re-introduced Gayaki Ang as a widely accepted sitar genre in India and abroad, and his nephew, Ustad Shahid Parvez Khan has carried this torch into the present day.

He also trained extensively in the art of tabla for over 10 years under Munnu Khan of the Delhi Gharana.

[1] The French-language Publication “Le Devoir”, based in Montréal, Canada, has this to say about the Ustad’s talent and presentation:[5] “The maestro embodies the Etawah Gharana style, which was developed by one of the oldest music schools in India.

Here, the particularity is to give an echo to the human voice at the end of the strings, or rather from the resonance chamber of the sitar.

The technique makes it possible to tame genres, such as the dhrupad, which is said to be the oldest song in North India, and the khayal, which is that of the great virtuosos.