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  "ar": "فياض خان",
  "en": "Faiyaz Khan",
  "ur": "فیاض خان"
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  "ar": "مغنٍّ كلاسيكي هندي (1886–1950)، أبرز أعلام غرانة آغرة في الغناء الهندستاني، وُلد في سكندرا قرب آغرة وتوفي في بارودا. عُرف بلقب «آفتاب موسيقي» (شمس الموسيقى)، وكان موسيقي بلاط بارودا، ولحّن باسم «بريم بيا»، وجمع في أسلوبه بين الدروباد والخيال والثومري.",
  "en": "Indian classical vocalist (1886–1950), the leading exponent of the Agra gharana of Hindustani music, born at Sikandara near Agra and died at Baroda. Known as Aftab-e-Mausiqi ('the Sun of Music'), he was court musician of Baroda, composed under the pen name Prem Piya, and blended dhrupad, khyal and thumri in his style.",
  "ur": "ہندوستانی کلاسیکی گلوکار (1886ء–1950ء)، آگرہ گھرانے کے سب سے نامور استاد؛ سکندرہ (قرب آگرہ) میں پیدا ہوئے اور بڑودہ میں وفات پائی۔ «آفتابِ موسیقی» کے لقب سے مشہور ہوئے، بڑودہ کے درباری موسیقار رہے، «پریم پیا» کے قلمی نام سے بندشیں بنائیں اور اپنے انداز میں دھرپد، خیال اور ٹھمری کو یکجا کیا۔"
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  "earliest": 1886.1050534918581,
  "latest": 1950.8456025790767
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   "edtf": "1886-02-08",
   "hijri": "1303",
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   "note": "The English article gives 8 February 1886 at Sikandara near Agra, citing the ITC Sangeet Research Academy tribute; some secondary works contest the year (1888 or 1889 in R. C. Mehta's Eminent Musicians of Yester Years), and the variant is stated here. The Hijri year (1303) is a conversion. Sikandara has no place entity and is not the city of Agra itself, so no born_in edge is written.",
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   "edtf": "1950-11-05",
   "hijri": "1370",
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   "status": "historical",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "The English article gives his death from tuberculosis on 5 November 1950 at Baroda. The Hijri year (1370) is a conversion. No place entity exists for Baroda, so no died_in edge is written.",
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    "value": "فیاض خان",
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    "value": "Faiyaz Khan",
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   {
    "value": "آفتاب موسیقی",
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   {
    "value": "Aftab-e-Mausiqi",
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   },
   {
    "value": "پریم پیا",
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   {
    "value": "Prem Piya",
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  "gender": "male",
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   "musician"
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   "edtf": "1886-02-08",
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   "note": "The English article gives 8 February 1886 at Sikandara near Agra, citing the ITC Sangeet Research Academy tribute; some secondary works contest the year (1888 or 1889 in R. C. Mehta's Eminent Musicians of Yester Years), and the variant is stated here. The Hijri year (1303) is a conversion. Sikandara has no place entity and is not the city of Agra itself, so no born_in edge is written.",
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   "edtf": "1950-11-05",
   "hijri": "1370",
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   "status": "historical",
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   "note": "The English article gives his death from tuberculosis on 5 November 1950 at Baroda. The Hijri year (1370) is a conversion. No place entity exists for Baroda, so no died_in edge is written.",
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  "faith": [
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    "value": "unknown",
    "basis": "unknown",
    "note": "No consulted text names his religion or any school. The English article gives his musical lineage back through his grandfather Ghulam Abbas to Haji Sujan Khan, his court service at Baroda and his titles — musical facts, never a faith attestation; his given name and family background do not count. Under the two-source rule the value stays unknown.",
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   "source": "English Wikipedia 'Faiyaz Khan', read on 26 October 2026. The reading route used exposed no revision ids, so the source is recorded in the consultation-date form and no Wikidata source file or external_ids are asserted. Existence was checked by filename fragments under all spellings (faiyaz, fayaz, aftab), by Arabic label, by biography and by the Wikidata route across data/person/ — no earlier record exists. There is no Urdu Wikipedia article for him: the Urdu article 'فیاض خان خیشگی' is a different, living Pakistani musician (Fayaz Khan Kheshgi, b. 1966). No Arabic Wikipedia article exists either; the Arabic and Urdu prose are written from the English source and the Arabic prose says so. No relations are written: Sikandara and Baroda have no place entities, and his teachers (Ghulam Abbas, Mehboob Khan Daraspiya, Natthan Khan, Fida Hussain Khan) and his named students have no person records.",
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "النشأة",
     "markdown": "وُلد في 8 شباط 1886 في سكندرا قرب آغرة، وهو ابن صفدر حسين الذي توفي قبل ولادته بأربعة أشهر؛ وتختلف بعض المصادر الثانوية في سنة ولادته فتجعلها 1888 أو 1889. ربّاه جده لأمه غلام عباس وعلّمه الموسيقى حتى بلغ الخامسة والعشرين، ودرس أيضا على محبوب خان «داراس بيا» وناثان خان وعمه فدا حسين خان.{cite:wikipedia-faiyaz-khan-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "المسيرة",
     "markdown": "خدم طويلا موسيقيَّ بلاطٍ لسياجيراو غايكواد الثالث، مهراجا بارودا، الذي منحه لقب «غيان راتنا» (جوهرة المعرفة)؛ ومنحه مهراجا ميسور سنة 1908 لقب **آفتاب موسيقي** — «شمس الموسيقى».{cite:wikipedia-faiyaz-khan-en} كانت براعته في الدروباد والخيال، وإن غنّى الثومري والغزل أيضا، ولحّن بندشات باسم «بريم بيا»؛ وأشهر ثومرياته «باجوبند كھل كھل جائے».{cite:wikipedia-faiyaz-khan-en} وغنّى في مؤتمرات لكناو والله آباد وكلكتا وغواليور وبومباي وميسور، وكان من المعجبين به أستاذ الطبلة أحمد جان ثيراكوا والمغنيان أمير خان وولايت خان.{cite:wikipedia-faiyaz-khan-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "الوفاة والأثر",
     "markdown": "أصابه التيفوئيد سنة 1945 ثم السل، فاضطر في سنواته الأخيرة إلى خفض طبقة صوته، وتوفي بالسل في بارودا في 5 تشرين الثاني 1950.{cite:wikipedia-faiyaz-khan-en} ومن تلاميذه ك. ل. سايغال ودليب تشاند بيدي وشريكريشنا راتانجانكار وخادم حسين خان وشرافت حسين خان.{cite:wikipedia-faiyaz-khan-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "المراجع",
     "markdown": "- {cite:wikipedia-faiyaz-khan-en}"
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  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Early life",
     "markdown": "He was born on 8 February 1886 at Sikandara near Agra, the son of Safdar Hussain, who died four months before his birth; some secondary works contest the birth year, giving 1888 or 1889.{cite:wikipedia-faiyaz-khan-en} He was brought up by his maternal grandfather Ghulam Abbas, who taught him music up to the age of twenty-five, and he also studied with Mehboob Khan \"Daraspiya\", Natthan Khan and his uncle Fida Hussain Khan.{cite:wikipedia-faiyaz-khan-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Career",
     "markdown": "He served for a long time as court musician of Sayajirao Gaekwad III, the Maharaja of Baroda, who awarded him the \"Gyan Ratna\" (Gem of Knowledge); the Maharaja of Mysore conferred on him the title **Aftab-e-Mausiqi** — \"the Sun of Music\" — in 1908.{cite:wikipedia-faiyaz-khan-en} His specialities were dhrupad and khyal, though he also sang thumri and ghazal, and he composed bandishes under the pen name **Prem Piya**; his most popular thumri was *Baaju band khul khul jaye*.{cite:wikipedia-faiyaz-khan-en} He performed in the musical conferences of Lucknow, Allahabad, Calcutta, Gwalior, Bombay and Mysore, and counted among his admirers the tabla maestro Ahmed Jan Thirakwa and the vocalists Amir Khan and Vilayat Khan.{cite:wikipedia-faiyaz-khan-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Death and legacy",
     "markdown": "Typhoid in 1945, followed by tuberculosis, forced him to lower his pitch in his last years, and he died of tuberculosis at Baroda on 5 November 1950.{cite:wikipedia-faiyaz-khan-en} Among his students were K. L. Saigal, Dilip Chand Bedi, Shrikrishna Ratanjankar, Khadim Hussain Khan and Sharafat Hussain Khan.{cite:wikipedia-faiyaz-khan-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Sources",
     "markdown": "- {cite:wikipedia-faiyaz-khan-en}"
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  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "ابتدائی زندگی",
     "markdown": "وہ 8 فروری 1886ء کو آگرہ کے قریب سکندرہ میں پیدا ہوئے؛ ان کے والد صفدر حسین ان کی پیدائش سے چار ماہ پہلے وفات پا چکے تھے، اور بعض ثانوی مآخذ ان کے سنہ پیدائش میں اختلاف کرتے ہوئے 1888ء یا 1889ء بتاتے ہیں۔{cite:wikipedia-faiyaz-khan-en} ان کی پرورش نانا غلام عباس نے کی جنھوں نے انھیں پچیس برس کی عمر تک موسیقی سکھائی؛ انھوں نے محبوب خان «داراس پیا»، ناتھن خان اور چچا فدا حسین خان سے بھی تربیت پائی۔{cite:wikipedia-faiyaz-khan-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "عملی زندگی",
     "markdown": "وہ طویل عرصے تک بڑودہ کے مہاراجہ سیاجی راؤ گائیکواڑ سوم کے درباری موسیقار رہے، جنھوں نے انھیں «گیان رتنا» کا خطاب دیا؛ میسور کے مہاراجہ نے 1908ء میں انھیں **آفتابِ موسیقی** کا لقب عطا کیا۔{cite:wikipedia-faiyaz-khan-en} ان کی مہارت دھرپد اور خیال میں تھی، اگرچہ وہ ٹھمری اور غزل بھی گاتے تھے، اور انھوں نے «پریم پیا» کے قلمی نام سے بندشیں بنائیں؛ ان کی سب سے مقبول ٹھمری «باجوبند کھل کھل جائے» تھی۔{cite:wikipedia-faiyaz-khan-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "وفات اور میراث",
     "markdown": "1945ء میں ٹائیفائیڈ اور پھر تپ دق نے ان کے آخری برسوں میں ان کی آواز کا درجہ گھٹا دیا، اور 5 نومبر 1950ء کو بڑودہ میں تپ دق سے ان کا انتقال ہوا۔{cite:wikipedia-faiyaz-khan-en} ان کے شاگردوں میں کے۔ ایل۔ سہگل، دلپ چند بیدی، شری کرشن رتن جنکر، خادم حسین خان اور شرافت حسین خان شامل تھے۔{cite:wikipedia-faiyaz-khan-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "مآخذ",
     "markdown": "- {cite:wikipedia-faiyaz-khan-en}"
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