Michael jackson and Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan a dream Duo
Last October Rahat Fateh Ali Khan was in Germany for a series of Concerts promoting the Sufi Music Legacy of Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. In an interview with Waslat Hasrat-Nazimi Rahat conveyed his plans about promoting peace through Sufi Music on the paths of his Uncle.
On being asked about his favourite singers he disclosed that he was a big fan of Michel Jackson, who was himself a big fan of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan.
Derek Trucks is an American guitarist, songwriter and founder of the Grammy Award winning “The Derek Trucks Band”. He has given Jazz tributes to Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan on several occasions recreating singles like “Ganj-E-Shakar”, “Sahib Teri Bandia” “Maki Madni” etc from Album “The Last Prophet”. In 2002, Rahat guested with The Derek Trucks Band on the song Maki Madni for Trucks’ album, Joyful Noise.
Derek Trucks Band – Sahib Teri Bandi
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
Courtesy: NPR
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Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan helped spread Qawwali, a form of Sufi devotional music, around the world.
It 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.