Tari Khan

Abdul Sattar Khan popularly known as Tari Khan (born 1953) is a Pakistani tabla player and vocalist. Tari Khan hails from the Punjab gharana and is the student of Ustad Mian Shaukat Hussain. He has been awarded with many accolades such as Taj Poshi (Golden Crown), the Hazrat Amir Khusrow Award, as well as Pakistan's Pride of Performance Award (Pakistan's highest artistic honour) in 2008. Tari Khan belongs to the tabla playing gharana called the Punjab gharana.

Early life
Tari Khan was born in Lahore, Pakistan. He hails from a traditional Rababi family (Muslim musicians employed in the royal Darbar Sahib, chief Sikh temple in Amritsar). His father was a classical vocalist. At the age of six, Tari was so captivated by the Tabla playing of Ustad Miyan Shaukat Hussain Khan, that for the next eight years, Tari Khan heard Ustad Mian Shaukat Hussain Khan's tabla at various events. At fourteen, he formally became a student of Ustad Mian Shaukat Hussain Khan, thus beginning his journey into Tabla. Three years later, he would go on to perform at the death anniversary of tabla master Mian Qadir Baksh for over 2 hours.

Career
He became famous as the accompanist of the ghazal singer Ghulam Ali as well as Mehdi Hassan. Tari always provided an exquisite accompaniment: clean, crisp s with astonishingly quick and interesting s to punctuate the verses. Because of this international exposure, musicians in India got to hear of him at a time when little cultural news escaped from Pakistan. Since then, Tari has gone on to musical scene as a tabla showman. Tari Khan has earned and has been awarded with several titles in his lifetime. The titles and awards range from being crowned the Golden Crown Taj Poshi, the Hazrat Ameer Khusro Award, as well as Pakistan's Pride of Performance Award, which has earned him the title of Tabla Prince of India and Pakistan.

Tari Khan has accompanied various classical artists like Pandit Jasraj, Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Roshanara Begum, Ustad Bade Fateh Ali Khan, Ustad Salamat Ali Khan, Ustad Ghulam Hassan Shaggan, Ustad Sharif Khan Poonchwaley (sitar player), Ustad Vilayat Khan (sitar player), and Pandit Ramesh Mishra, to name a few. He has also accompanied renowned ghazal singers like Ustad Mehdi Hassan, Ghulam Ali, Jagjit Singh, Talat Aziz, and Hariharan, to name a few.

"His fingers produce an amazing resonance on tabla," says Hans Raj Hans, a famous Punjabi sufi music singer.

Vocal singing career
In recent years, Tari has shown an interest in singing, he Has been a disciple of Mehdi Hassan

Personal life
Tari Khan lives in California, US. He trains his disciples in Tabla in California also. He has a number of followers around the world and has several students across the globe.

"Expanding his horizons, he moved to California 16 years ago, founded an academy for tabla studies there, and started touring universities and conservatories throughout America and Europe. At the same time, he's been absorbing the creative influences of other musics: jazz, African, rock, etc."

References

Mistry, Aban E. (1999). Pakhawaj & Tabla: History, Schools and Traditions. . Digitala.

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Category:Gharana
Category:Instrumental gharanas
Category:Tabla gharanas
Category:Tabla players
Category:Hindustani instrumentalists
Category:Pakistani musicians
Category:Punjabi culture
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Category:1953 births
Category:Classical music in Pakistan
Category:Pakistani percussionists
Category:Recipients of the Pride of Performance