Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan
| Bade Ghulam Ali Khan | |
|---|---|
| Also known as | Sabrang |
| Born | April 2, 1902 Kasur, Punjab, British India |
| Died | April 25, 1968 Hyderabad, India |
| Genres | Hindustani classical music |
| Occupation(s) | singer - Kasur-Patiala gharana |
| Years active | 1923–1967 |
| Labels | HMV, Times Music |
Bade Ghulam Ali Khan (Devanagari:बड़े ग़ुलाम अली ख़ान, Shahmukhi/Urdu: بڑے غلام علی خان) (c. 2 April 1902 – 25 April 1968) was a Hindustani classical vocalist, from the Kasur Patiala Gharana.
Bade Ghulam Ali Khan was born in Kasur, a small town near Lahore, Pakistan then Punjab province in British India. After partition of India in 1947, Kasur became a part of Pakistan. His father Ustad Ali Baksh Khan was a singer in a West Punjabi family of musical heritage. He belonged to a famous classical musical gharana called Kasur Patiala Gharana of Punjab.
At the age of five, Ustad Bade Ghulam Khan sahib started learning vocal music from his paternal uncle Ustad Kale Khan sahib , and later from his father Ustad Ali Baksh Khan sahib of Kasur Gharana. He had three brothers namely Barkat Ali Khan, Mubarak Ali Khan and Amaan Ali Khan.
Though he started his career by singing a few compositions of his late father Ustad Ali Baksh Khan sahib and uncle Ustad Kale Khan sahib of Kasur Gharana, Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan amalgamated the best of four traditions into his own Patiala-Kasur style, the Behram Khani elements of Dhrupad, the gyrations of Jaipur, and the behlavas (embellishments) of Gwalior. His raga expositions were brief contrary to convention and while he agreed that the beauty of classical music lay in leisurely improvisation, he believed that the audience would not appreciate long alaps and he had to sing for the masses and change the music to what the audience wanted.
After the partition of India in 1947, Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan went to his hometown Kasur in Pakistan, but returned to India later to reside permanently there in 1957, with the help of Bombay chief minister Morarji Desai, he acquired Indian citizenship and moved to a bungalow at Malabar Hill in Mumbai. He lived at various times in Lahore, Bombay, Calcutta, and Hyderabad.
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