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They recorded their first broadcast at Radio Pakistan, around the same time that he had his first hit song, Haq Ali Ali Ali Maula Ali Ali. Early Musical Journey and BroadcastsĪt that time (1971), the party was called Mujahid Mubarak Fateh Ali Khan Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan & Party. Soon, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan joined his uncles in public performances to continue the family tradition. He continued the teachings of qawwali devotion music to Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and his brother Farrukh. It was from that moment on that others began to believe that Nusrat could carry forward his ancestral musical lineage.Īfter his father’s death, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan’s teachings in the qawwali tradition were assumed by his uncle, Salamat Ali khan.
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The stunning performance at his father’s funeral left onlookers and senior musicians in awe of what they had just witnessed. Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan’s first public performance came at the age of 15 in 1964 at a solemn event, Fateh Ali Khan’s Chilum (funeral, also spelled chelum) but Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan proved his mettle and delivered a heart-wrenching performance. Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, like his father before him, was trained in qawwali devotion music and teachings from a young age.įateh Ali Khan wished for his son to become a doctor or an engineer due to the social status of such vocations. It was during this changing backdrop that Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan was born in (October) 1948 in Lyallpur (Faisalabad), Pakistan. The Colony was split into two dominions, India and Pakistan with a portion of Pakistan later becoming East Pakistan and then renamed Bangladesh in 1971 after the Liberation War. In 1947, the British Raj’s rule over Colonial India came to an end with the independence of India from the British Empire. Tumultuous Indo-Pak Partition Births the King of Qawwali So naturally, the brothers were trained by their father. Even with the wish that his sons not be burdened with the stressful life of a qawwal, Farrukh Fateh Ali Khan, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, and their father Fateh still were a family of musicians. His father hoped for him to become a doctor. The older son of Fateh Ali Khan, Nusrat was never supposed to be in music. This is especially true when he partnered with his brother, Mubarak Ali khan to perform traditional qawwali music for his family and countrymen. With his qawwali, Fateh Ali Khan supposedly was continuing an unbroken 600-year tradition within his family of qawwals. For his time, it is claimed that Fateh Ali Khan was quite famous. He soon became a skilled vocalist and a versatile instrumentalist, playing sitar and the western violin. Even through this challenging time, Fateh Ali Khan was trained by his father (Maula Baksh Khan) in qawwali and classical music. A Tradition of Sufi Singing from Fateh Ali Khanįateh Ali Khan was born in 1901 in British-occupied India during a time when the Empire was involved in China and South Africa. To understand and digest the tremendous journey that is Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan’s life and legacy, we must first start with his father, Fateh Ali Khan. Both artist ensembles had a major impact on qawwali spreading outside of South Asia.
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But in the 1970s, the Western world was taken by storm first by Sabri Brothers and then Nusrat’s qawwali party. You may have been exposed to Sufis within music before in the West thanks to the 1970s songs (“Baba O’ Riley” and parts of his 1972 debut solo album “Who Came First”) that Pete Townshend (seminal member of The Who) wrote in the parlance of his Sufi Murshid Meher Baba. It is embedded in the soundscape of the streets of Hyderabad, Delhi, Lahore, and Karachi. To South Asians, it is more than a genre of music. To the uninitiated, qwali is a sect of devotional music derived from Sufi Islamic poems which originated in the northern parts of India and Pakistan. Countless artists and sites pay tribute to his work, and his work continued to be copied in Coke Studio Pakistan, Coke Studio India, Lollywood, and Bollywood. Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan was known in Pakistan, and became reversed as the Shahenshah-E-Qawwali or the “King of Kings.” Decades after his death, social media still loves Nusrat’s music and people love to watch his 3- and 4-hour performances. And he did all this while wearing a sweet attitude and simple humility. In addition to his artistry, he broke down barriers between Hindu, Sikh, and Muslim communities. His life encompassed many lifetimes of talent and songs. That may begin to sum up the entity that was Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. Our planet was blessed with a wonderful human being, who was one of the most talented artists that spread the message of peace and love through qawwali.