Classical musician and the recipient of Padma Awards Ghulam Mustafa Khan died on Sunday. He was 89. Khan belonged to the Rampur-Sahaswan-Gwalior gharana of music.
His daughter-in-law Namrata Gupta Khan shared the news of his death on Facebook. “With a very heavy heart, I inform you all that my father-in-law the pillar of our family and a legend of our nation, Padma Vibhushan Ustad Ghulam Mustafa Khan sahab has left for his heavenly abode,” she wrote.
Khan’s daughter-in-law added that the family was shocked by the musician’s death since he had been keeping well, according to PTI. “Today morning he was fine,” she said. “We had a 24 hour nurse at home.”
She said that Khan became unwell during a massage. “I tried connecting to doctors and when they came he had already died,” she said. He passed away at 12.37 pm at his home in Mumbai’s Bandra area.
Khan, who was born on March 3, 1931 in Badayun, Uttar Pradesh, Ustad Ghulam Mustafa was initiated into…