Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan’s inherited the 600-year-old family tradition of qawwali. He belongs to the ‘Qawwal Bachon ka Gharana ( lit. the house of Qawwal Children),’ a primordial qawwali group of 12 children, which is said to have been assembled by Amir Khusro in the 13th century ACE for a musical dialogue with a Hindu religious luminary.
His father, Fateh Ali Khan, was a classical singer and qawwali musician. He has four elder sisters and a younger brother named, Farrukh Fateh Ali Khan, who was a player of the harmonium in qawwali.
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan parents: Meet Fateh Ali Khan
After his uncle Mubarak Ali Khan’s death in 1971, Nusrat officially became the leader of the family Qawwali party, which came to be known as Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Mujahid Mubarak Ali Khan & Party.
He made his first public performance as the leader of the party was at a studio recording broadcast organised by Radio Pakistan as a part of the annual music festival known as “Jashn-e-Baharan.” His first major hit in Pakistan was the song ‘Haq Ali Ali’ from the film “Nakhuda (1981).”
