Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, the best-known qawwali singer of all time, died in 1997, two days after the 50th anniversary of Pakistan’s independence.

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, who died in 1997 at age 48, brought the magic of qawwalis — songs based on the devotional poetry of Sufism — to the world.

Rahat Fateh Ali Khan is one of South Asia's most celebrated and iconic voices.With a career spanning decades, he has captivated global audiences through his mastery of ghazals, qawwalis, and ...

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.

A lost album from the famed Pakistani singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan is set to release over three decades after he originally recorded it.. According to Peter Gabriel‘s Real World Records, the ...

Peter Gabriel‘s Real World Records is set to release “Chain of Light,” a previously unheard album by Pakistani qawwali legend Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan.The recordings, discovered in the label ...

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan's ancestors emigrated from Ghazni, Afghanistan during the era of Mahmud Ghaznavi. They settled in Basti Sheikh in Jalandhar in what's now Punjab, in India.

Four previously unknown recordings of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, the Pakistani singer known as the ‘King of the Kings of Qawwali’ who died in 1997, have been rediscovered on a warehouse shelf in ...

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan was with Pierre Alain-Baud in 1992 or 1993. Pierre Alain-Baud, (Pyaro), the author of Le Messager du Qawwali (Voix du Monde) (Demi Lune 2008), ...

Nusrat first pierced Western consciousness at WOMAD, the annual World of Music, Arts and Dance festival, in 1985, where he was a revelation. Soon after he signed for Peter Gabriel’s Real World ...

"Maybe I'm getting overly excited, but Rahat Fateh Ali Khan's son sounds like a very young Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, the OG! Meet Shahzaman Fateh Ali Khan. What a time to be alive," wrote a Twitter ...