![]() Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan - Akhiyan Udeek Diyan (15:03)Ġ3. Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan - Akh Beqadran Naal Layee (15:39)Ġ2. In addition to popularising qawwali music, he also had a big impact on contemporary South Asian popular music, including Pakistani pop, Indian pop and Bollywood music.Ġ1. He toured extensively, performing in over 40 countries. He engaged in collaborations and experiments with Western artists, becoming a well-known world music artist. Khan went on to release movie scores and albums in Europe, India, Japan, Pakistan and the U.S. He was signed by Oriental Star Agencies, Birmingham, England, in the early 1980s. ![]() He became the head of the family qawwali party in 1971. He belonged to the Qawwal Bacchon Gharana (Delhi gharana) extending the 600-year old qawwali tradition of his family, Khan is widely credited with introducing qawwali music to international audiences.īorn in Lyallpur (Faisalabad), Khan had his first public performance at the age of 15, at his father's chelum. He possessed an extraordinary range of vocal abilities and could perform at a high level of intensity for several hours. He was described as the 4th greatest singer of all time by LA Weekly in 2016. Widely regarded as the greatest sufi singer in the Urdu language and South Asia's greatest qawwali singer, he is often referred to as "Shahenshah-e-Qawwali" (the King of Kings of Qawwali). Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (born Pervez Fateh Ali Khan 13 October 1948 – 16 August 1997), was a Pakistani vocalist, musician and music director primarily a singer of qawwali, a form of Sufi devotional music.
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