Khayyam musician biography for kids

Indian music director and composer (1927–2019)

Mohammed Zahur Khayyam Hashmi (18 February 1927 – 19 August 2019),^[1] better known mononymously as Khayyam, was an Indian music director and background score composer whose career spanned four decades.^[2][3]

He won three Filmfare Awards: for Best Music in 1977 for Kabhi Kabhie and 1982 for Umrao Jaan, and a lifetime achievement award in 2010.

He was awarded the 2007 Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in Creative Music, by the Sangeet Natak Akademi, India's National Academy of Music, Dance and Theatre.^[4] He was awarded the third-highest civilian honour, Padma Bhushan, by the Government of India in 2011.^[5]

Early life

Khayyam was born to a Punjabi Muslim family^[6] on 18 February 1927 in Rahon in Punjab, British India.^[7][8] As a boy, Khayyam ran away to his uncle's house in New Delhi.

There he was trained under classical Khayyam: The legend who marched to his own tune CIXE