NEW DELHI, March 14: Sitar maestro Ustad Vilayat Khan, who ruled the world of Indian classical music as a widely adulated monarch for more than five decades, died in Mumbai on Saturday after a brief ...
Ustad Vilayat Khan, one of India’s leading sitar players, died Saturday at Bombay’s Jaslok Hospital. He was 76. Khan had lung cancer, diabetes and hypertension, the Press Trust of India reported. He ...
Maestro Khan is the son of the legendary sitar and surbahar Maestro Ustad Imrat Khan and nephew of the sitarist Ustad Vilayat Khan, who was widely regarded as the greatest sitarist of his generation.