Ustad Shafqat Salamat Ali Khan is a classical singer of the khayal vocal genre, from Pakistan, belonging to the Sham Chaurasia gharana.The youngest son of Ustad Salamat Ali Khan,Shafqat began performing from the age of seven, when he appeared at the Lahore Music Festival at Lahore, Pakistan in 1979.Shafqat Ali Khan is the custodian of a five hundred year legacy of classical music. A major Pakistani English language newspaper reportedly commented about him, "This line of musicians began with Mian Chand Ali Khan and Mian Suraj Ali Khan who used to quell the heart and soul of Mughal Emperor Akbar by singing for him.Describing a performance by Shafqat Ali Khan, The New York Times wrote, "exuberant complications, in which melodic gestures join hand-waving and synchronized finger-pointing to form an eloquent symbiosis.Khan has received numerous awards including the Amir Khusro Award in 1986, a Ghanda Award from New Delhi University in 1995 and a gold medal from Faisalabad University in 2004.
Shafqat Ali Khan received the Pride of Performance Award by the President of Pakistan in 2009.
Shafqat Ali Khan received Peace ambassador award from Universal Peace Federation of United States of America’s in the head office of Washington times in 2018.
Besides performing in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, Shafqat Ali Khan has performed concerts throughout Europe and in the United States and Canada. His recording labels are HMV (UK), EMI (India), EMI (Pakistan), WaterLily Acoustics (USA), MegaSound (India) and Folk Heritage (Pakistan).
Shafqat Ali Khan feels that since classical music is not commercial, all classical singers and other persons related to classical music can not earn enough to make a decent living for themselves. So they should be given additional monthly support income by the Pakistani government.Shafqat ali khan has many students all over India and Pakistan. Shafqat ali khan has two sons, Faizan ali khan and Nadir ali khan, they are singing with their father and as a duo in concerts these days.
Ustad Shafqat Ali Khan has came up with a series of 10 basic Thaat which are mostly used in south Asian classical music for the knowledge of the new generation towards south Asian classical music this is his first video of Thaat Todi in Raga Miya Ki Todi.
Tabla Accompanist - Kashif Ali Dani
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