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 ...

The Pakistani qawwali icon sang words written centuries ago and died decades ago. He’s got a new album out. In June 2021, in ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

On what would have been the 77th birth anniversary of the legendary Qawwal Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, his ancestral Haveli in Faisalabad stands as a haunting reminder of official neglect. Once ...

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 ...

And yet, here we are, with a brand-new issue of Khan captured at his vocal prime, recorded when he was just at the precipice of becoming an international phenomenon: a midnight set recorded in 1985 at ...

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 ...

Look in many a music store and you’ll find Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan filed under “world music.” At the best of times, it’s an uncomfortable label — inextricably associated with trendy advertising ...