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Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan makes the purist pop of all

by Jon Garelick

["NusratAfro-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
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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.

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Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Says His Message of Peace Is for Everyone
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JIM WASHBURN | THE TIMES

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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.

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A Night With Nusrat: An Odd Place for an Epiphany
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the greatest nusrat fateh ali khanIt was a late Friday afternoon in 1990 when I got a call at the Los Angeles Times office inviting me to see a show by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan that evening. The qawwali master was performing in, of all places, a conference room at the LAX Airport Hilton, headlining a benefit to help build a cancer hospital in Lahore, Pakistan, hosted by that nation’s cricket hero Imran Khan.

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Bombay Streets – Exclusive music from streets of Bombay (feat. Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan)
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 Bombay Streets music album claims to capture the music and essence of Bombay, but how however it is essentially a remixed compilation of a few NFAK hits along with music from Subha Mudgal, Alamgir, M.M. Karim etc.. Don’t expect anything Mumbaiya… just a some rocking Nusrat compilations..
 

Bombay Streets Album Cover

Bombay Streets Album Cover

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