Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Express ICON - A Documentory

A Documentary On The Legend Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan by Express News. The program takes a very interesting take on Nusrat’s Music using inputs from Badar-Ul-Zaman (who criticizes NFAK), Rahat and other personalities… with contradicting views… ultimately justifying Nusrat’s Greatness not just as a Qawwal but also as a Musical Superstar and Icon… [Read More]

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan: The Voice Of Pakistan

Courtesy: NPR

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Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan helped spread Qawwali, a form of Sufi devotional music, around the world.

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Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Live In Paris, 21st March 1988 - His Best Concert Ever

The term " first contact" is often used when a new life-form is discovered in Alien Movies. This Concert performance of NFAK was nothing less than " The First Contact" of the french audience present in the crowd with Music of “Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan”. When coming out of the concert, most of them felt deeply moved or even transported to different reality (as they themselves reported), the last two hours were imprinted on their lives forever….

Before I post the audio and video links to this performance, lets first talk about this concert in particular and why I feel that it’s best ever. First, NFAK was in his best improvisation mood that day, placed in front of a almost french crowd, who he knew wouldn’t understand a word he utters, sargams and fireworks were the best he could do, and it lead to some of the best improvisations ever.

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Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Says His Message of Peace Is for Everyone

JIM WASHBURN | THE TIMES

Unlike many popular singers who have wildly animated styles, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan performs seated, as implacably planted on the stage floor as a bean-bag chair. But though he may be rooted to the spot physically, the Pakistani singer’s voice launches into incredible, propulsive flights of melismatic abandon as he strains to embody the content of his songs, and his hands and arms often gesticulate and fly with the emotion of his singing.

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A Night With Nusrat: An Odd Place for an Epiphany

the greatest nusrat fateh ali khan It was a late Friday afternoon in 1990 when I got a call at the Los Angeles Times office inviting me to see a show by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan that evening. The qawwali master was performing in, of all places, a conference room at the LAX Airport Hilton, headlining a benefit to help build a cancer hospital in Lahore, Pakistan, hosted by that nation’s cricket hero Imran Khan. [Read More]

Passion's Player - NFAK Magazine cover

Passion's Player Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

Passion's Player Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

Passion’s Player - Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan from an American Magazine Cover in 1993

How Shekhar Kapoor Prepares for Directing a scene

How Shekhar Kapoor Prepares for Directing a scene? Well, he panics .. and Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan’s Music hovers in his mind, increasing the chaos, and the output is Brilliant Creativity.

“The Power of not knowing drives him.. I  strongly believe that the same power used to drive Nusrat too”

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Karsh Kale & Vishal Vaid – A Tribute To Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

Vocalist Vishal Vaid and multi-instrumentalist Karsh Kale marked the 10th anniversary of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan’s untimely passing during a sold-out performance of the master’s music at Joe’s Pub in New York City. The concert began as Vaid explained the influence that Ali Khan had on the careers of those on stage that night, and reminisced of spending time with the man himself, hanging out during late hours in Vancouver over a decade ago. [Read More]

Fanna-fi-Allah, some of their best Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan renditions part 2

Fanna-fi-Allah giving Musical Tribute to Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan at Higher Vision Fest 2012, USA

Fanna-fi-Allah giving Musical Tribute to Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan at Higher Vision Fest 2012, USA

Sanson Ki Mala by Tahir Qawwal & Party Australia

Dil Jis Se Zinda Hai

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