{"id":35039,"date":"2020-12-19T05:21:36","date_gmt":"2020-12-19T05:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=35039"},"modified":"2020-12-19T05:21:38","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T05:21:38","slug":"ustad-iqbal-ahmed-khan-passed-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/ustad-iqbal-ahmed-khan-passed-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Ustad Iqbal Ahmed Khan Passed Away"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Noted Indian classical vocalist and exponent of the Delhi Gharana Ustad Iqbal Ahmed Khan passed away on 17 December 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/current-affairs-quiz-2019-daily-gk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Key-Points<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Born in 1954, Iqbal Ahmed Khan was raised in the Dilli Gharana of music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He began his stage career under the guidance of his teacher and grandfather Ustad Chand Khan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Keeping up with the family traditions, Khan had actively promoted Amir Khusro\u2019s musical works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also founded Dilli Durbar, \u201caimed solely towards the renaissance of Indian Classical Music\u201d, which held its first classical event in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was bestowed the title of \u201cGaayan Acharya\u201d by Sangeet Saiwalaya Bodhgaya (Bihar) in 1993, and \u201cSangeet Rattan\u201d by Sur Sangeet Samity, Narela, Delhi, and \u201cSangeet Saurabh\u201d by Sangeetaayan, Delhi in 1998.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The legendary musician was also a recipient of the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for Hindustani Music.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Noted Indian classical vocalist and exponent of the Delhi Gharana Ustad Iqbal Ahmed Khan passed away on 17 December 2020. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Born in 1954, Iqbal Ahmed Khan was raised in the Dilli Gharana of music. He began his stage career under the guidance of his teacher and grandfather Ustad Chand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":404,"featured_media":35040,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1364],"tags":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-35039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-december-2020"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35039"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35041,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35039\/revisions\/35041"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35039"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=35039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}