Tareef Hayat Khan is a born Musician. He has learned Tabla (তবলা) from late Ustad Madan Gopal Das (ওস্তাদ মদন গোপাল দাস) from the reputed institute ‘Chhayanaut’ (ছায়ানট), in Bangladesh. He has learned Sarode (সরোদ) from late Ustad Shahadat Hossain Khan (ওস্তাদ শাহাদত হোসেন খান), his cousin and reputed Sarode player in Bangladesh. Tareef has performed and taught Tabla and Sarode both in Bangladesh and during his stay abroad in Belgium, Hong Kong, Malaysia, and the United Sates. He also had advanced vocal singing lessons from May Chau Academy for contemporary Arts and Languages, and from Metternich Wong, a professional singing teacher in Hong Kong.
Tareef never tried singing in his early life. It was until when his daughter Zahra showed interest in singing, he took vocal singing lessons in Hong Kong, and developed his singing skills in order to inspire her. Mostly for fun, he can be considered as an enthusiastic amateur, and he vowed to sing all possible songs he liked so far. This led him to become a polyglot singer, singing in at least 9 languages: Bangla, English, Spanish, Hindi, Cantonese, Mandarin, Malay, Spanish and Turkish. This is due to his interest to learn the culture of different countries where he resided.
He has Tabla tutorial lessons in Youtube, continuing the legacy form his mentor Ustad Madan Gopal Das.
He released his first solo vocal Album in 2015, where he sang in 5 different languages: Bangla, English, Chinese (Mandarin), Chinese (Cantonese), and Malay. He also contriibuted with Sarode and Tabla in some of the tracks of these songs. He was in charge of the Music direction.
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