Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (نصرت فتح علی خان, also known as Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, October 13, 1948 - August 16, 1997) was primarily a singer of Qawwali, the devotional music of the Sufis, a mystical offshoot of Islam. Tradi

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (نصرت فتح علی خان, also known as Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, October 13, 1948 - August 16, 1997) was primarily a singer of Qawwali, the devotional music of the Sufis, a mystical offshoot of Islam. Traditionally, Qawwali has been a family business. Nusrat's family (originally from Afghanistan) has an unbroken tradition of performing qawwali for the last 600 years.

He was born in Lyallpur, Punjab in 1948 to Fateh Ali Khan, a famous Qawwal and musician. He had one brother, Farrukh Fateh Ali Khan. Initially, his father did not want Nusrat to follow him into the Qawwali business. He had his heart set on Nusrat choosing a much more respectable career path, and becoming a doctor. However, Nusrat showed such an aptitude for, and interest in, Qawwali that his father finally relented and started to train him in the art of Qawwali. This training was still incomplete when Fateh Ali Khan died in 1964, and the training was continued by Nusrat's uncle, Mubarak Ali Khan.