Suhail Yusuf Khan (
Hindi
Hindi (Devanāgarī: or , ), or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi (Devanagari: ), is an Indo-Aryan languages, Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in the Hindi Belt region encompassing parts of North India, northern, Central India, centr ...
: सुहेल युसूफ खान; born 1988) is an Indian
sarangi
The sārangī is a bowed, short-necked string instrument played in traditional music from South Asia – Punjabi folk music, Rajasthani folk music, and Boro folk music (there known as the ''serja'') – in Pakistan, India and Bangladesh. It ...
player and vocalist. He is the grandson of Sarangi maestro Ustad
Sabri Khan (1927-2015).
In 2016, Khan released ''Everything Sacred'', a collaborative folk album with
James Yorkston and
Jon Thorne
Jon Thorne (born 12 February 1967) is an English double bassist, producer and composer.
Career
Thorne is self-taught and started playing at the age of 23. He has studied and played jazz for a number of years following and considers Danny Thom ...
under the name
Yorkston/Thorne/Khan. The trio went on to release two further albums, ''Neuk Wight Delhi All-Stars'' (2017) and ''Navarasa: Nine Emotions'' (2020).
Khan is also a member of Welsh-Indian folk fusion group Khamira, who released their debut self-titled album in May 2017. The group includes Indian musicians and members of Welsh folk-jazz group Burum; both Khamira (Hindi) and Burum (Welsh) mean "yeast" in English.
References
External links
2014 profile of Khan in Forbes India's "30 Under 30"
Living people
1988 births
Sarangi players
Indian male classical musicians
People from New Delhi
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