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Ustad Amanat Ali Khan

Amanat Ali Khan
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Background information
Native name استاد امانت علی خان
Birth name Ustad Amanat Ali Khan
Born 1922
Hoshiarpur, Punjab, British India (now in India)
Died 18 September 1974(1974-09-18) (aged 52)
Lahore, Pakistan
Genres Ghazal
Occupation(s) Singer, music composer

Ustad Amanat Ali Khan (Urdu: استاد امانت علی خان‎; ( 1922–1974) was a Pakistani classical and ghazal singer, from the Patiala gharana. He was honoured with the 'Pride of Performance' award by the President of Pakistan in 2009. He stands with great singing icons like Mehdi Hassan and Ahmed Rushdi and left behind hundreds of classical and semi-classical songs for the public to remember him by.

Amanat Ali Khan was born in Hoshiarpur, Punjab, the grandson of Ali Baksh Jarnail, the founder of 'Patiala Gharana'.

Ustad Amanat Ali died in Lahore on September 18, 1974 of a perforated appendix. His son, Ustad Asad Amanat Ali Khan, after a long music career on Pakistan Television as a performer, died due to a heart attack on April 8, 2007, in London.

After the India-Pakistan partition, Ustad Amanat Ali migrated to Pakistan with his family.



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