Sitar musician Vilayat Khan

Vilayat Khan

Living place: India

Birthday: 28-8-1928 (96 years old)

Global rank: #68205

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Sitar musician Vilayat Khan profile

Who is Sitar musician Vilayat Khan?
One of India's preeminent sitarists, he is the recipient of the Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan awards for his contributions to society.
He won the Silver Medal for Composing at the 1st Moscow International Film Festival for his work on the film Jalsaghar.
 
 

Young / Before famous

His first performance at all Bengali Music Conferences was reported the next day as Electrifying Sitar.

Family life info

His grandson Ustad Rais Khan is also a famous sitarist.

Close relationship

Who is Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling Sitar musician Vilayat Khan?
He and famous fellow sitarist Ravi Shankar had a media-oriented competition was consistently underestimated by both men.

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Summary of Vilayat Khan profile

When was Sitar musician Vilayat Khan born?
Vilayat Khan birthday 28-8-1928 (at the age of 96).
Where is Sitar musician Vilayat Khan's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Vilayat Khan was born in India. is a Sitar musician, whose Zodiac is Virgo, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Dragon. Vilayat Khan's global rank is 68205 and whose rank is 3 in list of famous Sitar musician.
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Events in 1928 and 28-8

Events in the world in the birth year of Vilayat Khan

  • Kellogg-Briand Pact, outlawing war, is signed in Paris by 65 nations.
  • Richard E. Byrd starts an expedition to Antarctic; returns in 1930.
  • The first of Joseph Stalin's Five Year Plans imposes collectivization on agriculture in the Soviet Union.

Birthday Vilayat Khan (28-8) in history

  • Day 28-8 year 1609: British explorer Henry Hudson discovered Delaware Bay, USA.
  • Day 28-8 year 1850: Richard Wagner's opera, Lohengrin , premiered at Weimar, Germany.
  • Day 28-8 year 1922: The first commercial to be broadcast on radio aired on station WEAF in New York City. The ten minute advertisement for the Queensboro Realty Company cost $100.
  • Day 28-8 year 1955: Emmett Till, a black teenager from Chicago, was abducted and by white men after he supposedly whistled at a white woman in Mississippi. The case was reopened in 2005.
  • Day 28-8 year 1963: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech at the Lincoln Memorial to civil rights demonstrators.
  • Day 28-8 year 1968: Anti-Vietnam war protesters and police clashed in the streets of Chicago while the Democratic National Convention nominated Hubert H. Humphrey for president.
  • Day 28-8 year 1981: The Centers for Disease Control announced a medical task force had been formed to look into the incidence of Kaposi's sarcoma and pneumocystis in homosexual men. AIDS was later found to be the cause.
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