Arshad Ali
Arshad Ali
Vocalist
21 Renditions • 11 h 10 m
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GHARANA
Kirana
GURUS
Ustad Mashkoor Ali Khan
Ustad Mubarak Ali Khan
AWARDS
Jadu Bhatta Puraskar2002
Bharatiya Sanskriti Samsad Best Vocalist Award2010
Best Young Talent of the Year, Rasa and Melting Pot Productions2011
Arshad Ali is a Hindustani classical vocalist from a family of leading Kirana gharana musicians and the grandson of the sarangi player, the late Padma Shri recipient Ustad Shakoor Khan. He joined the ITC Sangeet Research Academy (ITC SRA) in 1988 at the age of four, becoming its first and only scholar of that age. He has received taleem from his maternal uncles, ITC SRA guru Ustad Mashkoor Ali Khan and Ustad Mubarak Ali Khan. In 1993, at the age of nine, he performed at the Sawai Gandharva Sammelan on a special invitation from Bharat Ratna Pt. Bhimsen Joshi on the occasion of Pt. Joshi's 75th birthday, and was described as the biggest sensation of the Sammelan. He won the Jadu Bhatta Puraskar in 2002, the Bharatiya Sanskriti Samsad Best Vocalist Award in 2010 and the 'Best Young Talent of the Year' award from Rasa and Melting Pot Productions in 2011. He has performed at festivals including the Bhatkhande Sangeet Sammelan, Lucknow, the Harivallabh Sangeet Sammelan, Jalandhar, the Gharana Sammelan, Mumbai and Sawai Gandharva, Pune. Abroad, he has toured Europe and the Middle East, appearing at the Theatre de la Ville in Paris and the Mawazine Festival in Morocco. His solo album Murchhana was released in Bangladesh in 2002, followed by CDs on HMV Saregama and Orion Entertainment. He has also recorded with the Violin Brothers, Dev Shankar Roy and Jyoti Shankar Roy. He became a musician-scholar of ITC SRA in July 2009 and a Musician Tutor in June 2012.