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Biography
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Abdul Karim Khan
Real name: अब्दुल करीम ख़ान
Effective period / Period of releases: 1940 - 2011
Legendary Indian classical singer and founder of the Kirana gharana. He was born in 1872 in Kirana in the Punjab and died in 1937. Subsequently the style or gharana that he evolved was named after his birth place, Kiraana.Ustad Abdul Wahid Khan was his cousin and teacher of his daughter Hirabai Barodekar, the later famous singer and actress.