Nishat Khan
Sign in to saveIndian sitar player and composer
In the Vinony graph
Vinony's link graph records 21 inbound references to Nishat Khan, and connects out to classical music, BBC Proms and Paco Peña.
Vinony files it under 1960 births, 20th-century Indian musicians and BLP articles lacking sources from January 2026.
Vinony links it to 4 Wikipedia language editions.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 1
Top works
- Ammān̲ nāmah
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- India
Discography
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 2,000
- Total plays
- 6,572
Tags
Nishat Khan is an Indian sitar player, composer and son of surbahar player Imrat Khan. Khan was born in the mid-1960s in Kolkata, India. As the son and disciple of Imrat Khan, he is the torchbearer of seven generations and the 400-year old tradition of India's most renowned musical family. Khan has mastered not only the North Indian classical idiom but also realms as diverse as Gregorian chant, Western classical music, abstract jazz, and flamenco. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Nishat+Khan"
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Khan
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- India
- Place of birth
- Kolkata
- Occupation
- musician
- Religion
- Islam
- Instrument
- sitar
- Official website
- nishatkhan.com
- Image
- Nishat Khan by Lilly Creightmore.jpg
Show 3 more facts
- Commons category
- Nishat Khan
- date of birth
- 1960-00-00
- start of work period
- 1967-00-00
Sources (3)
via Wikidata · CC0