When Ustad Rashid Khan sings, everyone just stops and listens to him. In the midst of an interview, as he was recalling an incident, he looks at his fellow artiste and breaks into a raag. It is only then that you realise why he is one of the most loved classical singers of his generation. “My first performance was at the age of eight, I was so nervous, I still remember it like yesterday,” says the Ustad. “These days I don’t get nervous unless I’m performing for some of the big names in music,” he says. In Hyderabad for the 14th edition of the Krishnakriti festival of art and culture, the first time he was here was when he was 22 years.
