Suhail Yusuf Khan
Suhail Yusuf Khan is a Sarangi (Indian bowed instrument) player, vocalist, composer, and a PhD candidate in the department of music at Wesleyan University. His dissertation «Bridge Overtones: Life Lessons from the Sarangi» will be the first in-depth ethnomusicological study written by a hereditary Sarangi player. His expertise derives from 20 years of performing, and academic research to find new modes of expression in Hindustani (North Indian classical) music, contemporary rock fusion, pop, folk, jazz, and experimental music. His ethnographic scholarship draws on personal experience as an eighth-generation musician belonging to a lineage of Hindustani musicians. Suhail Yusuf Khan situates this musical tradition in a globalized context, to help new audiences connect with the riches of this repertoire. He has been featured on more than fifteen albums and is currently signed to Domino records, U.K..