A Documentary On The Legend Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan by Express News. The program takes a very interesting take on Nusrat’s Music using inputs from Badar-Ul-Zaman (who criticizes NFAK), Rahat and other personalities… with contradicting views… ultimately justifying Nusrat’s Greatness not just as a Qawwal but also as a Musical Superstar and Icon…
Monthly Archives: January 2013
God’s voice
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan makes the purist pop of all
by Jon Garelick
Afro-pop enthusiasts boogie to Salif Keita, Kanda Bongo Man, Youssou N’Dour, and Angélique Kidjo. Proud Celts have Clannad, Altan, and the Chieftains. Brazilian pop fanatics worship Milton Nascimento. But in Alternative Nation, the world-music man of the moment is Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. The one-sheet from his publicist is an alterna-rock wet dream. Peter Gabriel, Trent Reznor, and Eddie Vedder have all worked with him. Joan Osborne wants to study with him. Jeff Buckley has interviewed him for Interview, and techno brats are vying for the remix rights. And the Nusrat bonanza continues, with several new albums and an appearance this Sunday, April 28, on VH-1 (9 p.m.) as part of the VH-1 Honorstribute to the Witness human-rights organization. Continue reading
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan: The Voice Of Pakistan
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan The Voice Of Pakistan
Courtesy: NPR
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Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan helped spread Qawwali, a form of Sufi devotional music, around the world.
Nusrat Speak — 1
Our music is not just for the sake of listening, but there’s a message in there that is through Sufism. Before listeners can understand it, they have to like the music first, to be captured by the tempo. Once they get involved that way they want to experience what is in the lyrics. It is like veil after veil lifting. Then they start to understand that this music is Sufism music, with a message in there.
“This message is not only for Muslims, but for the whole world, whatever religion you have. Our message is a message of peace. The message is about humanism, about how human beings should treat other human beings, how we should live. It is a message of love between human beings and Allah. All this comes from the teachings of the great saints like (12th-Century Sufi Mueenuddin) Chishti, who were giving out the message of Allah,” Ali Khan said.
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Says His Message of Peace Is for Everyone
JIM WASHBURN | THE TIMES
Nusrat & His of Love & Peace
Unlike many popular singers who have wildly animated styles, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan performs seated, as implacably planted on the stage floor as a bean-bag chair. But though he may be rooted to the spot physically, the Pakistani singer’s voice launches into incredible, propulsive flights of melismatic abandon as he strains to embody the content of his songs, and his hands and arms often gesticulate and fly with the emotion of his singing.