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Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (13 October 1948 – 16 August 1997) (Urdu: ???? ??? ??? ????) was a world-renowned Pakistani musician, primarily a Legendary singer of Qawwali, the devotional music of the Sufis.
Considered one of the greatest voices ever recorded, he possessed an extraordinary range of vocal abilities and could perform at a high level of intensity for several hours.
Extending the 600-year old Qawwali tradition of his family, Khan is widely credited with introducing Qawwali music to international audiences.
He is popularly known as "Shahenshah-e-Qawwali", meaning "The King of Kings of Qawwali".Born in Faisalabad, Pakistan, Khan had his first public performance at age of 16, at his father's chelum.
He became the head of the family qawwali party in 1971.
He was signed by Oriental Star Agencies, Birmingham, England, in the early 1980s.
Khan went on to release movie scores and albums in Europe, India, Japan, Pakistan, and the U.S.A.
He engaged in collaborations and experiments with Western artists, becoming a well-known world music artist.
He toured extensively, performing in over 40 countries.Early life and careerKhan was born in a Punjabi family (which moved, six centuries ago - since when they're attached to music - from Ghazni in Afghanistan to Jallandhar in India) on 13 October 1948 in the city of Faisalabad, shortly after the Partition of India during which his family moved from their native city of Jallandhar, in East Punjab to West Punjab, in the newly created state of Pakistan.
He was the fifth child and first son of Fateh Ali Khan, a musicologist, vocalist, instrumentalist, and Qawwal.
Khan's family, which included four older sisters and a younger brother, Farrukh Fateh Ali Khan, grew up in central Faisalabad.
Initially, his father did not want Khan to follow the family's vocation.
He had his heart set on Khan choosing a much more respectable career path and becoming a doctor, because he felt Qawwali artists had low social status.
However, Khan showed such an aptitude for, and interest in, Qawwali that his father finally relented.sonu tripathi has teach nusrat fateh ali khan and he was the best friend of nusratIn 1971, after the death of Mubarak Ali Khan, Khan became the official leader of the family Qawwali party and the party became known as Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Mujahid Mubarak Ali Khan & Party.
Khan's first public performance as the leader of the Qawwali party was at a studio recording broadcast as part of an annual music festival organised by Radio Pakistan, known as Jashn-e-Baharan.
Khan sang mainly in Urdu and Punjabi and occasionally in Persian, Braj Bhasha and Hindi.
His first major hit in Pakistan was the song Haq Ali Ali, which was performed in a traditional style and with traditional instrumentation.
The song featured restrained use of Khan's sargam improvisations.In 1979, Khan married his first cousin, Naheed (the daughter of Fateh Ali Khan's brother, Salamat Ali Khan); they had one daughter, Nida.Later careerIn the summer of 1985, Khan performed at the World of Music, Arts and Dance (WOMAD) festival in London.
He performed in Paris in 1985 and 1988.
He first visited Japan in 1987, at the invitation of the Japan Foundation.
He also performed at the 5th Asian Traditional Performing Art Festival in Japan.
He also performed at Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York in 1989, earning him admiration from the American audience.In the 1992–93 academic year, Khan was a Visiting Artist in the Ethnomusicology department at the University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States.Khan teamed with Peter Gabriel on the soundtrack to The Last Temptation of Christ in 1985, with Canadian musician Michael Brook on the albums Mustt Mustt (1990) and Night Song (1996).
The team up with Peter Gabriel gave Khan the opportunity to stylize his songs by blending his qawwalis with the Western music.
Khan also grouped with Pearl Jam's lead singer Eddie Vedder in 1995 on two songs for the soundtrack to Dead Man Walking.Peter Gabriel's Real World label later released five albums of Khan's traditional Qawwali, together with some of his experimental work which included the albums Mustt Mustt and Star Rise.
Khan provided vocals for The Prayer Cycle, which was put together by Jonathan Elias, but died before the vocals could be completed.
Alanis Morissette was brought in to sing with his unfinished vocals.His album Intoxicated Spirit was nominated for a Grammy award in 1997 for best traditional folk album.
Same year his album Night Song was also nominated for a Grammy Award for Best World Music Album, but lost out to The Chieftains' album Santiago.Khan contributed songs to, and performed in, several Pakistani films.
Shortly before his death, he recorded a song each for two Bollywood films, Aur Pyaar Ho Gaya work with singer Udit Narayan (in which he also sang 'Koi Jane Koi Na Jane' onscreen) and Kachche Dhaage.
He sang "Saya bhi saath jab chhod jaye" for Sunny Deol's movie Dillagi.
The song was released in 1999, two years after Khan's death.
He also sang "Dulhe ka sehra" from Bollywood movie Dhadkan which was released in 2000.Khan contributed the song "Gurus of Peace" to the album Vande Mataram, composed by A.
R.
Rahman, and released to celebrate the 50th anniversary of India's independence.
Rahman, who was a big fan of Khan could not compose further songs with him.
As a tribute, Rahman later released an album titled Gurus of Peace, which featured "Allah Hoo" by Khan.
Rahman's 2007 song "Tere Bina" was also composed as a tribute to Khan.DeathUstad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan was taken ill with kidney and liver failure on 11 August 1997 in London, England, while on the way to Los Angeles USA in order to receive a kidney transplant.
He died of a sudden cardiac arrest at Cromwell Hospital, London, on Saturday, 16 August 1997, aged 48.
His body was repatriated to Faisalabad, Pakistan, and his funeral was a public affair.
His wife, Naheed Nusrat passed away on 13 September 2013 in Credit Valley Hospital in Mississauga, Ontario in Canada.
Naheed had moved to Canada after the death of her husband.
She leaves behind a daughter.DocumentariesNusrat Fateh Ali Khan: le dernier prophète (1996).
Directed by Jérôme de Missolz.Nusrat has Left the Building...
But When? (1997).
Directed by Farjad Nabi.
(This 20-minute docudrama focuses on Khan's early career.)A Voice from Heaven (1999).
Directed by Giuseppe Asaro.
New York, NY: Winstar TV & Video.
(This 75-minute documentary, available on VHS and DVD, provides an introduction to Khan's life and work.)Samandar Main Samandar (2007).
A documentary aired on Geo TV detailing Khan's career.The King of Qawalli (2009).
A short film aired on Dawn News about Khan's life and career.Concert filmsThe JVC Video Anthology of World Music and Dance (1990).
Video 14 (of 30) (South Asia IV).
Produced by Ichikawa Katsumori; directed by Nakagawa Kunikiko and Ichihashi Yuji; in collaboration with the National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka.
[Tokyo\]: JVC, Victor Company of Japan; Cambridge, Massachusetts: distributed by Rounder Records.
Features a studio performance by Khan and Party (two Urdu-language songs: a Hamd, and a Manqabat for Khwaja Mu`inuddin Chishti.
Filmed in Tokyo, Japan, 20 September 1987, for Asian Traditional Performing Arts).Nusrat! Live at Meany (1998).
Produced by the University of Washington.
(87-minute recording of a 23 January 1993 concert at Meany Hall, University of Washington in Seattle, during Khan's residency at the ethnomusicology program there.Live in Concert in the U.K., (DVD, vols.
1–17) [OSA\]; recorded between 1983 and 1993Akhiyan Udeek Diyan (DVD) [Nupur Audio\]Je Tun Rab Nu Manauna (DVD) [Nupur Audio\]Yaadan Vicchre Sajan Diyan Aayiyan (DVD) [Nupur Audio\]Rang-e-Nusrat (DVD, vols.
1–11) [Music Today\]; recorded between 1983 and 1993 (same material as the OSA DVDs)VHS videotapes, vols.
1–21 [OSA\]; recorded between 1983 and 1993 (same material as the OSA DVDs)Luxor Cinema Birmingham (VHS vol.
1, 1979)Digbeth Birmingham (VHS vol.
2, 1983)St.
Francis Hall Birmingham (VHS vol.
3, 1983)Royal Oak Birmingham (VHS vol.
4, 1983)Private Mehfil (Wallace Lawley Centre, Lozells Birmingham, November 1983) (VHS vol.
5)Private Mehfil (VHS vol.
6, 1983)Natraj Cinema Leicester (VHS vol.
7, 1983)Live in Southall (VHS vol.
8)Live in Bradford (VHS vol.
9, 1983)Live in Birmingham (VHS vol.
10, 1985)Allah Ditta Hall (VHS vol.
11, 1985)Harrow Leisure Centre (VHS vol.
12)University of Aston (VHS vol.
13, 1988)Aston University (VHS vol.
14, 1988)WOMAD Festival Bracknell (VHS vol.
15, 1988)Live in Paris (VHS vol.
16, 1988)Poplar Civic Centre London (VHS vol.
17)Imperial Hotel Birmingham (VHS vol.
18, 1985)Slough Gurdawara (SHABADS) (VHS vol.
19)Imran Khan Cancer Appeal (VHS vol.
20)Town Hall Birmingham (VHS vol.
21, 1993)