Kamal Sabri, sarangi player

Kamal Sabri is the only sarangi-playing son of my first teacher Ustad Sabri Khan. He traces his lineage as given here. "Main"="Miyan", the one and only.

Kamal Sabri told me that he started practising sarangi as a teenager—unusually late for someone in a hereditary sarangi family. He has performed widely in India and abroad and does lots of fusion music. The one video on this site is of his performance at a memorial concert for the husband of the Delhi dhrupad singer and academic Sumati Mutatkar in her home.

Here he is performing Shri rag (often employed in mourning contexts):

 

 

A  Sarangi Gallery

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