Mumbai: Some movies are remembered for their stories, some for their stars, and some for songs that never fade away. One such ...
The Pakistani qawwali icon sang words written centuries ago and died decades ago. He’s got a new album out. In June 2021, in a Nissen hut in the middle of Wiltshire, England, less than 30 miles from ...
I deeply love the unique, exhortative, and spirit-filled music of Pakistani sufi master Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (1948-1997). If you are unfamiliar with Nusrat and qawwali (sufi gospel) music, you can ...
HERE IN THE year 2000, the idea that music can touch people around the world without losing its ties to a specific culture is almost commonplace. After all, we live in an era when Israeli soldiers ...
How the hell do you lose an album, especially by a man with perhaps the greatest voice of all time — Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan? (Photo by Loren Haynes) By the time the great Nusrat died of a heart attack ...
Peter Gabriel‘s Real World Records is set to release “Chain of Light,” a previously unheard album by Pakistani qawwali legend Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. The recordings, discovered in the label’s archives ...
In 1997, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan passed away of sudden cardiac arrest. On September 20, a lost album titled Chain Of Light by the Pakistan musical icon will be released after it was discovered in the ...
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan's new album is "Chain of Light." (Courtesy of Masataka Ishida) Four previously unknown recordings of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, the Pakistani singer known as the ‘King of the Kings ...
hen Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan died in 1997, at just 48, it felt as if an entire continent had fallen silent for a moment. His was not merely a voice but a force of nature, a sound that seemed to stretch ...
A lost album from the famed Pakistani singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan is set to release over three decades after he originally recorded it. According to Peter Gabriel‘s Real World Records, the album was ...
The rediscovered recordings were released on a new album called “Chain of Light.” Pakistani singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan's unknown recordings discovered Four previously unknown recordings of Nusrat ...
He was the Pavarotti of qawwali, a Sufi devotional music that for obvious reasons wasn’t in heavy rotation on MTV. Qawwali songs are based on spiritual texts and are lyrically a combination of holy ...