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 ...

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 ...

He was the Pavarotti of qawwali, a Sufi devotional music that for obvious reasons wasn’t in heavy rotation on MTV. Qawwali songs are based on spiritual texts and are lyrically a combination of holy ...

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 ...

Pakistani singer Rahat Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan is the nephew of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, who dominated the genre of qawwali -- Sufi songs of divine love and earthly devotion -- before his death in 1997.

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook If you’re familiar with Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan at all, you’ve probably heard him sing alongside ...

HERE IN THE year 2000, the idea that music can touch people around the world without losing its ties to a specific culture is almost commonplace. After all, we live in an era when Israeli soldiers ...

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan is widely credited for bringing global attention to Qawwali music, extending the 600yr old Qawwali tradition of his family. By the time of his death following a heart attack, ...

Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, the iconic singer who gave a new voice to the music industry and known as the Emperor of Qawwali, left his fans 26 years ago. He created a dawn of art music that will ...

Pierre Alain-Baud, (Pyaro), the author of Le Messager du Qawwali (Voix du Monde) (Demi Lune 2008), and Kazi Abdullah Al Muktadir, the book's Bangla translator in Shahen Shah E Qawwali: Nusrat Fateh ...

How the hell do you lose an album, especially by a man with perhaps the greatest voice of all time — Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan? (Photo by Loren Haynes) By the time the great Nusrat died of a heart attack ...