Ustad Bade Fateh Ali Khan is a Pakistani singer who specializes in Khayal classical music genre. The singer belongs to Patiala Gharana. He was the younger brother of Ustad Amanat Ali Khan, with whom he sang. The duo of Ustad Amanat Ali Khan and Bade Fateh Ali Khan were at the peak of their careers in the 1950s and 1960s. Gained huge popularity. In 1969, Fateh Ali and his brother Amanat Ali Khan won the Pride of Performance Award, Pakistan’s highest national literary award, awarded by the President of Pakistan.
Ustad Bade Fateh Ali Khan was born in 1935 in Sham Chaurasi, Hoshiarpur, Punjab, British India (now Punjab, India). He was 82 years old. After the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947, he moved to Pakistan with his family at the age of 12. He studied music under his father Ustad Akhtar Hussain Khan, also a famous singer under the patronage of the Maharaja of Patiala . He continues the legacy of Patiala Gharana and sings classical Hindustani music. At the age of 9, he and his younger brother Ustad Amanat Ali Khan began performing in the court of the Maharaja of Patiala.
Ustad Fateh Ali Khan in his youth
family
Ustad Bade Fateh Ali Khan was born into a Punjabi Muslim family. He is the sixth generation of the Patiala tribe.
Parents and siblings
Ustad Akhtar Hussain Khan was the father of Bade Fateh Ali Khan and was the son of the Maharaja of Patiala. Maharaja), who was an excellent singer.
Ustad Akhtar Hussain Khan, Fateh Ali’s father
His brothers Ustad Amanat Ali Khan and Hamid Ali Khan were famous in the same field.
wife and children
Bade Fateh Ali Khan had four children, two of whom were sons Sultan Fateh Ali khan and Rustam Fateh · Rustam Fateh Ali Khan, who preserves the legacy of the musical tradition of Patiala Gharana, and two daughters.
other relatives
His great-grandfather Mian Kallu Khan founded Patiala Gharana in the 19th century. Mian Kallu Khan studied classical music under Mir Qutub Bakhsh Tanrus Khan, who Mir Qutub Bakhsh Tanrus Khan was a musician in the court of Bahadur Shah Zafar, the last Mughal emperor. Later, his grandfather Jarnail Ali Baksh Khan also took up the same profession and started working in Patiya with “Colonel” Fateh Ali Khan Singing in the court of the Maharaja.
Janeel Ali Bakshi Khan (left) and “Colonel” Fateh Ali Khan (right)
Profession
Carrying on the legacy of Patiala Gharana, Ustad Bade Fateh Ali Khan started singing classical Hindustani vocal music at the age of 9. He was inspired and learned music from his elders. He was trained by his father Akhtar Hussain Khan and his elder brother Ustad Amanat Ali Khan. When he was a teenager, he started singing with his elder brother in the court of Maharaja Patiala Yadavinder Singh. Amanat Ali Khan and Fateh Ali Khan were popular in the 1950s and 1960s. That was the peak of their success. The duo made their first public appearance in 1945 at a concert sponsored by the influential musical esthete Pandit Jeevanlal Matoo. In 1949, they performed at the All-Bengal Music Conference in Calcutta, which made them very popular and successful. Since then, the two have toured South Asia extensively, becoming representatives of Patiala Gharana.
Ustad Bader Fateh Ali Khan (left) and Ustad Amanat Ali Khan (right) sing for Radio Pakistan
Ustad Bade Fateh Ali Khan has expertise in classical and semi-classical music genres such as Khayal, Thumri, Ghazal and Dadra. He was also trained in the medieval style Dhrupad. He was proficient in ragas while his brother Amanat Ali was proficient in sur. The two were divided according to their respective majors, with Amanat Ali Khan singing the treble and Fateh Ali Khan singing the bass. The thumri ‘Kab aao gey’ sung by the duo is considered a historical classic. In 1992, Ustad Fateh Ali Khan collaborated with Norwegian saxophonist Jan Garbarek and released a CD called “Ragas and Sagas”, which was appreciated by the audience.
CD album cover “Ragas and Sagas” (1992)
Some of Fateh Ali Khan’s most famous albums include “Gharanon Ki Gaiki Vol-18” (1978), “Raag Ke Ustad, Vol. 18”. 2″ (1998), “Raag Ke Ustad, Vol. 3” (1998), “Bandish – Classical Works Reinterpreted (feat of Lahore’s Ensemble of Great Musicians)” (2013) and “Raag Se Ghazal Tak” (1978).
Album “Bandish” poster (2013)
famous disciple
Ustad Bade Fateh Ali Khan teaches students from all over the world. Afghan pop singer Ahmed Wali is his disciple. Wali was so talented that Ustad renamed him after himself Ahmed Wali Fateh Ali Khan. One of his favorite students, Dia, went on to become an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker. She is from Norway and is half Afghan and half Pakistani. In addition, the famous Nohakhawan Haider Rizvi Alhussaini was also his student.
Awards, Honors, Achievements
- In 1969, Ustad Bade Fateh Ali Khan was imprisoned along with his elder brother Ustad Amanat Ali Khan. Awarded with Pride of Performance Award by the President of Pakistan.
- He also received the Tamgha-e-Imtiaz Award from the State of Pakistan. This is the fourth level of Imtiaz Awards.
die
On January 4, 2017, Ustad Bade Fateh Ali Khan passed away in Islamabad at the age of 82. He had been suffering from lung disease since 2016 and was admitted to Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) for 10 days. He is buried in Mominpura Cemetery, Lahore, Pakistan. After his death, the Arts Council of Pakistan organized a commemoration event on March 2, 2017, in memory of the iconic singer.
Favorites
- Poets: Allama Iqbal, Munir Niazi, Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Ahmed Faraz
- Lagasse: Kamod, Meg, Malcouns, Jaanpuri and Adana.
Facts/Trivia
- Bade Fateh Ali Khan was named after “Colonel” Fateh Ali Khan, his grandfather Ustad Ali Bak Partner and friend of Ustad Ali Baksh Jarnail Khan.
- After the sudden death of Ustad Amanat Ali Khan, Fateh Ali Khan became disheartened and fell into depression and stopped singing. He returned to singing two years later and joined the ranks of Hamid Ali Khan and Asad Amanat Ali Khan.
- He has immense respect and love for his elder brother and singing partner Ustad Amanat Ali Khan. In an interview, when asked about the happiest moment of his life, he tearfully replied:
When I sing with my brother Amanat Ali Khan! ”
- After the death of Ustad Bader Fateh Ali Khan, he was buried next to his elder brother Ustad Amanat Ali Khan and nephew Asad Amanat Ali ·In Khan’s graveyard.
- The ancestral home of Ustad Fateh Ali Khan has been converted into a music school.
- Ustad Bade Fateh Ali Khan was deeply inspired by the singing style of Ustad Ashiq Khan. Ustad Ashiq Khan is the son of Colonel Fateh Ali Khan, his grandfather Janel Ali Bakshi Jarnail Ali Baksh Khan’s friend and singing partner. He used to call Ustad Ashiq Khan “Taya”.
Ustad Ashiq Ali Khan
- Ram Saakh is the signature raga of Patiala Gharana and a favorite of the duo Amanat Ali and Fateh Ali Khan.
- Ustad Bader Fateh Ali Khan revealed in an interview that in 2001, his private performance was arranged for King Zahir Shah by the French diplomat in Kabul. By then, Kabul had been liberated from the Taliban, but the war continued. After hearing the loud noise, Ustad Bader Fateh Ali Khan became anxious and narrated his uneasiness to the king, who replied:
Aap Darbari gaiay, bomb to girtay rehtay hein” (you start singing Raga Darbari, bomb will indeed explode nearby).
- Renowned music expert Daud Rahbar calls him the contemporary “Taan Kapta” (Dean of Tanas).
- In their maiden performance at the Kolkata Music Conference, the Amanat Ali-Fateh Ali duo performed raga Puriya Dhanasri, asthai “Sultan Alam· Sultan e Alam Nizamuddin Auliya”.
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Source: HIS Education