Ayaan Ali Bangash was born 5 September 1979 as the son of
sarod player
Amjad Ali Khan and Subhalakshmi Barua Khan, a classical dancer. His birth name was
Bangash and he is the seventh generation of musicians of the Gwalior musical lineage; the Bangash claim to have invented the
sarod. He has an older brother,
Amaan, and they were taught music by their father from a young age and later began to perform with their father on concert tours. Ayaan Ali Bangash has performed with his father and brother since the late 1980s and performed at
Carnegie Hall in 1997. He released his solo debut album of classical music in 1999. He hosted the music talent show
Sa Re Ga Ma Pa on
Zee TV with his brother for three years in the early 2000s. In 2002, he and his brother wrote a book about their father, ''Abba: God's Greatest Gift To Us
. The brothers released Reincarnation
, an album of world fusion music, in 2006, and a thematic album, Mystic Dunes'', in 2007, and toured internationally. They were awarded a Lycra Style Award from
MTV India in 2006. Bangash joined his family to perform for the
Parliament of India in 2007. In 2009, after working under a movie contract that forbade public appearances for a year, the brothers returned to making music when the production by
Bollywood director
J. P. Dutta was cancelled. They released a
Sufi music album called Rang in 2012. They also released a new album called Headwaters in October 2013. ==Personal life==