Sabir Khan is an Indian sarangi

Sarangi

The Sārangī is a bowed, short-necked string instrument of India which is originated from Rajasthani folk instruments. It plays an important role in India's Hindustani classical music tradition...

 player. He belongs to Sikar

Sikar

Sikar is a city located in the Shekhawati region of Rajasthan state in India. It is the administrative headquarter of Sikar District. Sikar is a historical city and contains many old Havelis which are a huge tourist attraction. The best way to reach the city is to use road transport from Jaipur...

 gharana

Gharana

In Hindustani music, a gharānā is a system of social organization linking musicians or dancers by lineage or apprenticeship, and by adherence to a particular musical style. A gharana also indicates a comprehensive musicological ideology. This ideology sometimes changes substantially from one...

 (school) of music who have given several stalwarts to Indian classical music.

Early life

Born in Jodhpur

Jodhpur

Jodhpur , is the second largest city in the Indian state of Rajasthan. It is located west from the state capital, Jaipur and from the city of Ajmer. It was formerly the seat of a princely state of the same name, the capital of the kingdom known as Marwar...

, Rajasthan

Rajasthan

Rājasthān the land of Rajasthanis, , is the largest state of the Republic of India by area. It is located in the northwest of India. It encompasses most of the area of the large, inhospitable Great Indian Desert , which has an edge paralleling the Sutlej-Indus river valley along its border with...

 to sarangi player and vocalist Ustad Sultan Khan. He trained under his father and his uncle Ustad Nasir khan. He is the ninth generation to take up Sarangi. His great grand father Ustad Azim Khan sahab was a court musician at Sikar Rajasthan.

Career

Sabir Khan started was exposed to music when he was six year old through his grand father Ustad Gulab khan. He shares the stage with his father and apart from solo concerts.

Sabir khan is well known today for his delicate mastery of sarangi. His technique of playing is rare combination of sur and laya (note and rhythm).

Sabir khan performs with his father in concert and also solo. He has performed along side artists such as Ustad Zakir Hussain, pt.Kumar Bose,pt. Anindo Chatterjee. He has also played with artists like gazal maestro Ustad Gulam Ali, Talat Aziz, Asha bhosle and The Hazards at a terrace gig near Citi Centre and recently played in the album of great Lata Mangeshkar.

He played in several feature films like Chameli, Rog,Dor, Anwar

Anwar

Anwar is the English transliteration of two Arabic names commonly used in the Muslim world: the male given name ʼAnwar , meaning "luminous" or the female given name ʼAnwār , meaning "a collection of lights." Both names may also be encountered as surnames. In francophone countries, both names are...

, Sanwariya, Chodon na yaar, Jodha Akbar.

His cousin, Dilshad Khan

Dilshad Khan

Dilshad Khan is a Bengali Hindustani classical singer of the Patiala Gharana.-Early life and background:Dilshad Khan was born in Kolkata, and studied at St. Xavier's Collegiate School, Kolkata, where future music composer R. D. Burman was his classmate.He started learning tabla at the age of four,...

, is also a popular Sarangi player.