Ustad Salamat Ali Khan (1934-2001) is one one of most renowned classical singers of Pakistan and Indian Subcontenent. Ustad was born in 1934 in a small place called Sham Chaurasi in District Hoshiarpur of East Punjab. The story goes that his ancestors, Chand Khan and Sooraj Khan, were granted the area of Sham Chaurasi by the Mughal king Akbar. He was seven when, along with his elder brother Nazakat, he made his first public appearance and performed at the har-ballub mela in Punjab in 1940 ...
