Kamal Sabri

Kamal Sabri, born in 1974, is the only sarangi-playing son of my first teacher Ustad Sabri Khan. 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. In recent years, he has performed at venues including the Harivallabh Sangeet Samalen in 2017 and the Mahindra Kabir Festival in 2019, where he was noted to be playing an unusual 'Mewati sarangi' with a scrolled upper pegbox.