Belonging from the illustrious Patiala Gharana, Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan was a great vocalist of the Hindustani classical music tradition during the 20th century India. Having a very tumultuous life full of good and bad experiences, Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan put all his physical, mental and spiritual powers into the learning of music. By the year 1944 while he was still young, Bade Ghulam Ali Khan came to be considered as the king of Hindustani classical music genre.
Read on this biography to know more about Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan. People were so much in love with his voice that many called him the Tansen of the 20th century. There's hardly a doubt that he is the most adept of all singers of his time. At different points of time, he lived at different places like Lahore, Mumbai, Kolkata and Hyderabad. Even in the present times, Bade Ghulam Ali Khan remains the motivation behind en entire generation of top-ranking vocalists in India and Pakistan
