 Wahid Khan was born in Etawah, Uttar Pradesh.He was still quite young when his father Imdad Khan moved to Kolkata from Etawah with his family.In Kolkata the family lived in the house of the connoisseur Taraprasad Ghosh, where Imdad Khan trained his sons, Wahid Khan and Enayat Khan, in sitar and surbahar.