Posted on January 9, 2013
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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.
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Posted on January 8, 2013
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An Epic Performance in an epic Quality, hats off to Dear Asim Hussain Ji ( nusratfan.com) for yet another great upload….. The following performance took place on 15th July at Bracknell’s South Hill Park, and is popularly considered as the root of WOMAD and World Music itself.. Enjoy the traditional Nusrat With Traditional tunes and a lot of great ragas and sargams…
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Posted on December 10, 2012
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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.
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Posted on November 25, 2012
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Wasim Akram talking about Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
In today’s video treat, Wasim Akram remembers how the team won the World Cup & How much obsessed they were with “Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan” . It was 1992, and cricketers like Javed Miandad were already die-hard NFAK fans. NFAK himself started taking interest in cricket those days as he was becoming a good friend of the Pakistani cricket team. Just before the team left home for World-Cup, NFAK personally recorded many songs specially for the team on request of Javed Miandad. Team played these songs pretty much every time (before match-after match, during practice sessions, during breaks and of course to celebrate the victory)…
Posted on November 21, 2012
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People in Pakistan discovered the true greatness of NFAK only after his huge success in West, a truth no one can deny. This creative short-movie revolves around a usual Pakistani NFAK fan, who departs from the filmy renditions and discovers the true traditional and ecstatic Nusrat. As this trend continued..
Nusrat was no more just a great Qawwal in Pakistan…. he was the countries greatest son ever.
Posted on November 17, 2012
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The Memoriam displayed below was issued by Real World Label in all popular Newspapers and Magazines of Canada. Scanned from one such magazine from 1997.
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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.
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