Originally known as Qamruddin Khan, Bismillah Khan was born on 21st March 1916 in Dumraon, Bihar and Orissa province, British India. He was a classical musician who played shehnai, a ceremonial ...

Lucknow: Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday paid tribute to shehnai maestro and Bharat Ratna Ustad Bismillah Khan on his 109th birth anniversary. In a post on X, the CM said, "Famous shehnai ...

Shehnai maestro Ustaad Bismillah Khan, one of India’s most beloved musicians, passed away on August 21, 2006. Born in 1916, in a family of court musicians in Bihar, Khan was so in love with his music ...

VARANASI: The stairs are crumbling to dust, the walls ravaged by the passage of time and just beyond flows the Ganga as if in eternal serenity. It was here that a young Bismillah Khan practiced for ...

In the decades after, the humble reed instrument associated with all things auspicious in Indian tradition went from being an ‘accompaniment’ to the global centrestage. Khan was the virtuoso, the ...

Bismillah Khan, one of India’s most celebrated musicians and known for popularizing the shehnai woodwind instrument (aka the Indian oboe) — died Aug. 21 in the Hindu holy city of Varanasi of a heart ...

Bismillah Khan, 90, a master of the Indian wind instrument called the shehnai, died Monday of a heart attack in the Hindu holy city of Varanasi, India. He had been in failing health for several months ...

New Delhi, Mar 21 (PTI) When Bismillah Khan played Raag Kafi at the Red Fort on August 15, 1947, it was a momentous breakthrough for the shehnai that was till then mainly confined to temples, wedding ...