The new album Dub Qawwali takes the vocal stylings of the Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, who died 10 years ago, and puts them over a reggae beat. Nusrat, a Pakistani singer, has sold more records worldwide ...
I count myself incredibly fortunate to have seen Qawwali singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan perform while he was still alive, this was back in 1990, at a little hamlet called Santa Barbara, a year or so ...
To call a concert, especially that of a singer of religious songs, a “revelation” is beyond cliché. Yet there is To call a concert, especially that of a singer of religious songs, a “revelation” is ...
LAHORE: Today marks the 27th death anniversary of the legendary Qawwali singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, whose profound musical legacy continues to resonate 27 years after his passing. Born on October 13 ...
It is said that when Nusrat sang, he could make listeners cry without understanding a word. That was his gift, the ability to bridge the earthly and the divine, to make the human voice itself an act ...
In June 2021, an employee at singer-songwriter Peter Gabriel’s Real World Records uncovered four rapturous qawwalis by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan—one of them never taped anywhere else—in a warehouse. Last ...
Resurrecting the dead is nothing new in music. Remember Natalie Cole singing and dancing with her late father, Nat King Cole? The latest luminary to be revived is the Pakistani singer Nusrat Fateh Ali ...
Singer Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan collaborated with Canadian guitarist Michael Brook on these two outstanding albums in the early to mid 1990s, aiming to reach a cosmopolitan audience by blending his ...