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Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan (b. Kasur, near Lahore, Punjab, British India (now Pakistan), c. 1902; d. Hyderabad, India, April 25, 1968) was an Indian vocalist, considered one of the finest representatives of the Hindustani music tradition in the 20th century.

Khan hailed from a West Punjabi family of musical heritage. Having lived a life of the greatest and worst experiences, Khan absorbed all his mental, physical and spiritual powers into the study and practice of music. By 1944, he was considered the uncrowned king of Hindustani music, with some people going so far as referring to him as the Tansen of the 20th century. He lived at various intervals in Lahore, Mumbai, Kolkata and Hyderabad. He remains the insipiration of a whole generation of top-ranking singers and performers in both India and Pakistan, including Ghulam Ali (b. 1940), Pakistan's leading ghazal singer.

Upon the partition of India in 1947, Khan returned to his home in Pakistan, but returned to India some time afterwards to permanently reside there. In 1957, he acquired Indian citizenship. He sang a couple of songs for the movie Mughal-e-Azam where his voice was represented as Tansen's voice. He reportedly charged Rs. 25,000/- per song when the going rate for popular playback singers such as Lata and Rafi was below Rs. 500/- per song. He collapsed and died in Hyderabad in 1968.

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