Ustad alla rakha biography of william

Born Alla Rakha Qureshi on April 29, 1919 in Ratangarh, India; married Bavi Begum; father of Razia, 1959-2000; Zakir Hussain, born March 9, 1951; Fazal Qureshi, born 1961; Taufiq Qureshi, Kurshid Aulia; died on February 3, 2000 in Bombay, India.

Education: Punjab Gharana.

Drummer Ustad Alla Rakha Qureshi, also known as Ustad Allarakha Khan, popularized the musical genre of solo tabla as a concert form. Beginning in the 1960s, Qureshi and sitar master Pandit Ravi Shankar were recognized for their accomplishments in bringing classical Hindustani music to Western audiences.

For approximately 20 years, between the late 1950s and through the 1970s, Qureshi (a Muslim) and Shankar (a Hindu) toured the world, thus popularizing the special music of a socially diverse and politically fragile region of northern India.

Often the two played in a musical style, called sawaal-jawaab, or &;ldquo;question and answer." In sawaal-jawaab the musicians enter into a dialogue, not unlike a West