StatsBorn: 13 October 1948 Died: 16 August 1997 Born and residing in:  Pakistan Ethnicity: Asian Relationship Status: Married
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Sublime performer who popularised Islamic Qawwali music
Few, if any, artists have transcended the East West musical divide as Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, who died on 16 August 1997 aged 48.
Revered in his native Pakistan , he took Qawwali, the music of devotional Sufism (an esoteric dimension of the Muslim faith), to an appreciative world audience in a career spanning 30 years.
Mr Khan’s genius was to encompass other forms of music, making it accessib
Sublime performer who popularised Islamic Qawwali music
Few, if any, artists have transcended the East West musical divide as Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, who died on 16 August 1997 aged 48.
Revered in his native Pakistan , he took Qawwali, the music of devotional Sufism (an esoteric dimension of the Muslim faith), to an appreciative world audience in a career spanning 30 years.
Mr Khan’s genius was to encompass other forms of music, making it accessible to followers of different religions and cultures.
His hybridising experimentation with music took him from Bollywood to Hollywood , where his unique sound was equally sought.
Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan was born on October 13 1948 in Faisalabad , Punjab into a family with a 600 year unbroken history of performing Qawwali.
His father, Ustad Fateh Ali Khan, a distinguished musician and Qawwali performer, discouraged his son from following in his footsteps, but relented when he realised how gifted he was.
Mr Khan gave his first public performance at his father’s funeral ceremony and under the tutelage of his paternal uncle became leader of the Qawwali group Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Mujahid Mubarak Ali Khan & Party.
Throughout the Seventies and Eighties, his music became more and more sought after by the burgeoning film industries of Pakistan and India .
His unique style also caught the ear of western musicians and producers. He collaborated with Peter Gabriel on the soundtrack to Martin Scorsese’s controversial 1988 film The Last Temptation of Christ.
The singer’s Real World record label produced several of Mr Khan’s albums and their friendship helped increase his popularity across Britain and the US , in particular.
Proof of the reach of his music came with the 1990 remix by Massive Attack of Mustt Mustt, the title track of one of Mr Khan’s experimental albums, which became a huge UK club hit.
He was taken ill in London , while on his way to Los Angeles for a kidney transplant and died of a heart attack five days later.
Such was his contribution, in 1998 Spin magazine listed him as one of the world’s 50 most influential music artists and in 2006 he was named as one of the top 12 artists and thinkers in a Time Magazine edition entitled “60 Years of Asian Heroes”.
Not only influential but prolific too, he was entered in the Guinness Book of World Records for the 125 albums he produced - the largest output of any Qawwali artist.
Eddie Vedder, lead singer and guitarist with Pearl Jam, who collaborated with Nusrat in 1995 on the soundtrack of Tim Robbins’ crime drama Dead Man Walking, described him as, “a true musician who won’t be replaced in my life.”
Arguably the greatest accolade he has been paid came in 2005, with the formation of a tribute band, Brook’s Qawwali Party. The world may have been prematurely deprived of his talent, but at least generations can still enjoy the music that made him famous.
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