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HABIB KHAN sitar Click on the picture to get a larger (higher resolution) version. Listen to music samples featuring Habib Khan: (in concert) Artichoke Longing Habib Khan was born into a family of musicians. His lineage of master musicians can be traced back several generations to when Indian classical music enjoyed the patronage of the nobility and royalty of India. He began his training at the tender age of five under his father Ustad Hameed Jaffar Khan. Over the years he has carved out a distinct style of his own. He blends his father's traditional techniques with his own imaginative style to create a unique sound. He is as much at ease with light classical and devotional music as he is with pure classical rendering of ragas. Habib Khan was only fourteen when he began teaching music at the Sangeet Natak Acadeny, a prestigious music school in Bombay. Habib khan lives and teaches in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has created many albums with various musicians including Zakir Hussain and Swapan Chaudhuri. He has also composed music for a fourteen-tape yoga video series by yoga expert Vasanti Bhat. Habib Khan has toured extensively throughout the United States and in India. He is the founder/director of the Habib Khan school of music and the OM music circle, an organization he created to promote the Music of North India. For more information on Habib Khan, please visit his web site: www.habibkhan.com