Famous musician Ustad Amjad Ali Khan was born in 1945 in ________. 

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  1. Gwalior
  2. Lucknow
  3. Jhansi
  4. Agra

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Option 1 : Gwalior
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the correct answer is Gwalior.Key Points

  • Ustad Amjad Ali Khan Bangash was born on 9 October 1945 in Gwalior
  • He is an Indian classical sarod player, best known for his clear and fast ekhara taans.
  • He was born into a classical musical family and has performed internationally since the 1960s.
  • He was awarded India's second-highest civilian honour Padma Vibhushan in 2001.
  • first performed in the United States in 1963 
  • He was awarded 21st Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavna Award. He received Padma Shri in 1975Padma Bhushan in 1991, and Padma Vibhushan in 2001

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Indian Music Instruments and Players:

  • Mridangam: Palakkad Mani Iyer, T.R. Murthy, Guruvayoor Doraiswami, Karaikudi R.Mani, Umayalpuram Shivaraman, Velloor A. Ramabhadran, Mavelikara Krishnan Kutty Nair.
  • Sitar: Ravi Shankar, Mushtaq Ali Khan, Vilayat Khan, Uma Shankar Mishra, Nikhil Banerjee, Raiz Khan, Harashankar Bhattacharya, Budhaditya Mukherjee, Abdul Halim Jaffer Khan
  • Sarod : Amjad Ali Khan, Ali Akbar Khan, Rajiv Taranath
  • Violin : V.G. Jog, Lalgudi Jayaraman, T.N. Krishnan, Yehudi Mennuhin, M. S. Gopalakrishnan, Kunnukkudi Vaidyanathan, Kalyana Krishna Bhagavatar, L. Subramaniam, Chandayya, Kantha Devi, Gajannan Rao Joshi (Hindustani), Zubin Mehta (Western).
  • Santoor: Shiv Kumar Sharma, Tarun Bhattacharya, Bhajan Sopperi.
  • Flute: N.Ramani, Hariprasad Chaurasia, T.R. Mahalingam, Pannalal Ghosh, T. S. Shankaran, Sikkil Sisters
  • Mandolin: U. Srinivas, S. Balamurali Krishna.
  • Piano : Surojeet Chatterji, Kaikhosh Shapurji, Sorabjee.
  • Shehnai: Bismillah Khan, Bagheshwari Gamar, Bade Gulam Ali.
  • Tabla: Alla Rakha, Zakir Hussian, Shankar Ghosh, Abad Mistry, Rimba Shiva, Santha Prasad, Sheikh Dawood, Sharafat Ahmed Khan, Kishan Maharaj, Ahmed, Tirkuva, Pt. Samta Prasad.
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