The Pakistani qawwali icon sang words written centuries ago and died decades ago. He’s got a new album out. In June 2021, in a Nissen hut in the middle of Wiltshire, England, less than 30 miles from ...

Pierre Alain-Baud, (Pyaro), the author of Le Messager du Qawwali (Voix du Monde) (Demi Lune 2008), and Kazi Abdullah Al Muktadir, the book's Bangla translator in Shahen Shah E Qawwali: Nusrat Fateh ...

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 ...

ISLAMABAD: Renowned Pakistani musician Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan’s 65rd birthday was observed on October 13 across the world of music. Khan was popularly known as Shahenshah-e-Qawwali, meaning King 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 ...

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 ...

HERE IN THE year 2000, the idea that music can touch people around the world without losing its ties to a specific culture is almost commonplace. After all, we live in an era when Israeli soldiers ...

Pakistan is remembering today the legendary qawwali singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan on his 70th birth anniversary. Known as the king of qawwali, the maestro was born in Faisalabad on October 13 1948 into ...

Revellers on Essex’s Mersea Island were transfixed by the sheer spiritual power of Khan’s first performance outside south Asia, which marked a turning point in attitudes towards global music Nusrat ...