Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan was a Pakistani vocalist and musician, who mainly used to perform Qawwali, a form of Sufi Islamic devotional music. He is popularly known as ‘Shahenshah-e-Qawwali (Kings of Kings of Qawwali).’
They had a daughter named Nida Fateh Ali Khan.
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan children: Meet Nida Fateh Ali Khan
His father wanted him to become a doctor or an engineer as the profession of Qawwali artists had not given a reputed social status at that time.
The successive generations of his family have been following the traditional qawwali singing for more than 600 years.
He had started with learning the Tabla from his father, but after his father’s death, he had switched to vocal music, and recieved its training from his paternal uncles Mubarak Ali Khan and Salamat Ali Khan.
In 1971, after the death of his uncle, Mubarak Ali Khan, he was appointed as the successive leader of his family Qawwali Party named as Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan-Mujahid Mubarak Ali Khan & Party.
He gave his first performance as the leader of Qawwali Party in a music festival, Jashn-e-Baharan, which was organised by Radio Pakistan in Islamabad.
