
ABOUT
Looking for a skilled and versatile
sitar player
who can create an enchanting ambience
for your special occasion?
Look no further than Farhan Khan
aka Flash Sitar!
Whether you're planning a wedding, birthday, anniversary or corporate event, Farhan will collaborate with you to craft a customized musical experience that perfectly suits your unique style and preferences. Flash performs modern rock and pop tunes, jazz standards, traditional Indian melodies and Bollywood songs.
Farhan's exquisite Sitar playing is sure to entertain and enchant your guests. Farhan can perform a full bodied sound as a soloist or visually and sonically enhance your performance stage with a variety of guest performers including percussionists, vocalists, and supporting musicians.
Your event = your choice!


Sitar Player
for Hire
as a
solo
Duo
or
Trio and more

BIO

A Brief Bio
Hailing From
Originally from Karachi, Pakistan, Khan’s style blends Indian music with electronic beats and global flavors. His family moved when he was highschooler to San Jose CA.
There he met Ustad Habib Khan, his mentor also a distant relative and later his future collaborator Fontain Riddle.
Mentors
Farhan Khan is a graduating student of the world renowned Ustad Habib Khan.
Habib Khan is a Classical and progressive sitar virtuoso of the highest level, he was born into a family of musicians and can trace his lineage back several generations to when classical music enjoyed the patronage of the nobility and royalty of India.
Farhan Khan is also a graduate of Musicians Institute in Hollywood CA where benefited famous guest lectures Joe Satriani and Steve Vai and other Hollywood guest lectures dropping by this exciting, well known Music School.
Sound Track Credits (more on publications)
Farhan's sitar work has lead him to several noteworthy collaborations in film soundtracks.
Farhan Khan and Fontain Riddle are credited for their song Eastern Breeze.
The Hollywood film "The Con is On" features a large cast of internationally famous actors:
Uma Thurman, Tim Roth, Maggie Q, Sofia Vergara, Alice Eve, Parker Posey, Crispin Glover
Recording Publications and Collaborations
PUTUMAYO RECORDS
Farhan's instrumental cover of the Eagles, Hotel California is featured on Putumayo Records compilation for 2025.
MINISTRY
The well known 80s band released their 15th album Moral Hygiene featuring Farhan Khan's sitar playing on the track Disinformation.
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