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Tribute to a Musical Maestro... Vilayet khan ... A4... coloured Pencil...2017... Ustad Vilayat Khan (28 August 1928[1] – 13 March 2004) was one of India's well known sitar maestros. Along with Ravi Shankar, Ali Akbar Khan, Nikhil Banerjee and his younger brother Imrat Khan, Vilayat Khan helped introduce Indian Classical Music to the West. He recorded his first 78-RPM disc at the age of 8, and gave his last concert in 2004 at the age of 75. Vilayat Khan was born in Gouripur, Mymensingh in then East Bengal in British India and current Bangladesh. His father Enayat Khan was recognised as a leading sitar and surbahar (bass sitar) player of his time, as had been his grandfather, Imdad Khan, before him. He was taught in the family style, known as the Imdadkhani Gharana or Etawah Gharana, after a small city close to Agra where Imdad Khan lived. Vilayat Khan's animosity for the politics and institutions of India's cultural life was another matter. In 1964 and 1968, respectively,
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