Monday, August 12, 2013
QURESHI ALLA
RAKHA KHAN popularly known as Alla Rakha (29 April 1919 – 3 February 2000)
was an Indian tabla player. He was a frequent accompanist of Ravi
Shankar.
He was married to Bavi Begum, and had three sons, Zakir
Hussain, Fazal Qureshi and Taufiq Qureshi, a
daughter Khurshid Aulia née Qureshi, and nine grandchildren. Alla Rakha had
another daughter, Razia, whose death preceded his by less than 24
hours. He also married to a lady belonging to Faisalabad, Pakistan. It was
a love marriage. Rohi Bano, a popular TV actress in 1980s, was his daughter
from this wedlock. She is still alive. His another brother Sabir practised
tabla in Lahore.He studied voice and Raag Vidya under Ashiq
Ali Khan of the Patiala gharana. His
regimen of practice and dedication were legendary: hours upon hours of hard,
disciplined practice, that would later pay off.Alla Rakha was born in Paghwal, Jammu, British
India. His mother tongue was Dogri. He
became fascinated with the sound and rhythm of the tabla at the age of 12,
while staying with his uncle in Gurdaspur. After
partition of India, his family migrated to Pakistan (village Rambari, Tehsil
Shakargarh, district Sialkot). Finding little chances for grooming and
appreciation, the determined young lad ran away from home, became a disciple of
and began studying tabla with Mian Kader Baksh of
the Punjab gharana.
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