Mohammad Hussain Sarahang

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Ustad Mohammad Hussain Sarahang, one of the great Masters of Hindustani Classical Music

Ustād Mohammad Hussain Sarāhang (1924–1983) (Persian: استاد محمد حسین سرآهنگ‎ ) is a renowned Afghan musician famous in all over India, Pakistan and Iran. He was born in Kharabat, a district of the old city of Kabul. He learned the basics of music from his father Ustad Ghulam Hussain, a well known musician. He then left to Patiala School of Music in India to learn the Indian Classical Music. After 16 years of learning before Ustad Ashiq Ali Khan, known as "The light of Punjab", he returned back to Kabul at the age of 25. He was shortly awarded the title of Sarāhang by the government of Afghanistan.

Ustad Sarahang is one of the greatest Masters of Eastern Classical Music, a professional musician in North Indian Classical Music. He earned the following titles and degrees from various Music Schools of India:

Degrees of “Master” , “Doctors” and “Professor” of Music from Klakandra School of Music in Calcutta, India
Title of “Koh-e Beland” (High Mountain of Music) from Chandigar School of Music
Title of “Sar Taj-e Musiqee” (Top Crown of Music) from Central School of Music in Allahabad, India
Title of “Baba-e Musiqee” (The Father of Music) in his final concert in New Delhi, India 1979
Title of “Sher-e Musiqee” (Lion of Music) in his last performance in Allahabad 1982

Ustad Sarahang has recorded hundreds of Raags and Ghazals in India and in Radio Kabul. He has sung mostly the Ghazals of Amir Khusraw and Abul Ma'āni Bedil, the famous poets of Indian School of Poetry in Dari (Persian), as he was a famous Bedil Shenās (See Abdul Qader Bedil).

He has created many Raags in Indian Classical Music, from which "Hazra" and "Minâ-mani" Raags are more well-known.