Considered one of the greatest singers ever recorded, he possessed a six-octave vocal range and could perform at a high level of intensity for several hours.Extending the 600-year old Qawwali tradition of his family, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan is widely credited with introducing Sufi music to international audiences.He was popularly known as Shahenshah-e-Qawwali, meaning The King of Kings of Qawwali.īorn in Faisalabad, Nusrat had his first public performance at age of 16, at his father's chelum. Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (Shahmukhi) (Octo– August 16, 1997) a world-renowned Pakistani musician, was primarily a singer of Qawwali, the devotional music of the Sufis (a mystical tradition within Islam).
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