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).’
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan siblings: Meet Farrukh Fateh Ali Khan
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.
He has a nephew named Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, a musician primarily of qawwali. He got married to Naheed Nusrat.
