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.

I deeply love the unique, exhortative, and spirit-filled music of Pakistani sufi master Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (1948-1997). If you are unfamiliar with Nusrat and qawwali (sufi gospel) music, you can ...

REUTERS - Singer Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, known for both Bollywood hits and Qawwali, Sufi devotional music that dates back more than 700 years, is taking the two genres to Britain in August for three ...

Before Sahir Ludhianvi used it as inspiration, the original poem was penned by Sufi poet Ameer Bakhsh Sabri and composed by ...

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’s archives ...

I first discovered Pakistani sufi maestro Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan in 1982 on one of Peter Gabriel’s WOMAD (World of Music and Dance) Festival benefit collection LPs, titled Music and Rhythm. It was the ...

For his performance, Shahzaman selected the iconic qawwali “Kise Da Yaar Na Vichre,” a piece deeply embedded in South Asian ...

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 ...

Some forms of cultural expression defy the need for translation. So it is for the traditional South Asian music qawwali, according to its fans and adherents. Most commonly played at Sufi shrines in ...

Ranveer Singh’s Dhurandhar features a song that revives a 70-year-old qawwali originally performed by Mubarak Ali and Fateh Ali Khan, later adapted for the 1960 film Barsat Ki Raat ...