Munir sarhadi biography of albert

A music concert is on, continuing till the wee hours of the morning. Many vocalists and instrumentalists are showing their skills. Every performer thinks that his was the best performance on the stage. One girl in the audience is overwhelmed by the performance of an instrumentalist and becomes such an admirer that she falls in love with him.

Incidentally, this happened in Delhi, a little before Independence.

He began his career as a professional singer by participating in radio programmes.

The artist was Munir Sarhadi, the sarinda virtuoso who won laurels in the country and abroad, and the girl was Banu Begum, who attended a concert in Delhi, filled with a galaxy of vocalists and instrumentalists from all over the subcontinent. Munir Sarhadi, the Peshawar-born musician, later rose to fame not only in Pakistan but also won laurels abroad.

A winner of the Pride of Performance, the legendary instrumentalist was perhaps the only artist after his father who achieved that recognition in playing the traditional instrument. Paradoxically, his death in , was marked by utter poverty and neglect — an end most of our artists often meet. Munir was born in His father was the great scion of sarinda players of Pushto music.

In his childhood he showed no interest in learning the instrument which was not liked by some of his family elders. His father left for Delhi where he had gotten a job at the All India Radio. His uncle and custodian, Khushmir Khan tried to persuade him to learn the music but all in vain. His father did not want to teach him and took him to Ustad Afzal Hussain, one of his colleagues at the radio.