The only reason why qawwali, the devotional music of the Sufis, is known in the West when other types of Pakistani music remain hopelessly obscure is Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. While he may not have been ...

New music from Marianne Faithfull; techno folk from Britain's Beth Orton; A great unknown from Minnesota: Metaphor; the Kirtan chanting of Bhagavan Das; and Sufi music from Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan.

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 ...

KARACHI: To celebrate Pakistan’s 76th Independence Day, music streaming company Spotify revealed that it would be introducing an upgraded version of a playlist dedicated to the country's legendary ...

If you’re familiar with Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan at all, you’ve probably heard him sing alongside Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder in a rendition of Neil Young’s “The Long Road” in the 1995 Tim Robbins film of ...

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 ...

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 album was ...

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan spoke about Bollywood music directors copying his songs in an old interview. The Pakistani qawwali maestro said Anu Malik and Viju Shah copied him best. Legendary Pakistani ...

Twitter users point out the similarity between the voice of Rahat Fateh Ali Khan's son Shahzaman and legendary Pakistani singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. Shahzaman Fateh Ali Khan, son of famous Pakistani ...

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 ...