Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan is remembered in music for work that changed what came after it.
The record lists Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan as Pakistani musician, primarily a singer of qawwali (1948-1997).
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan was born at Faisalabad in 1948. His recorded nationality is Pakistan.
The twentieth century made work collective, expensive and political, with consequences that reached well beyond the people doing it.
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan is described as singer, composer and music educator.
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan is associated first and foremost with vocal abilities and could perform at a high level of intensity for several hours. Performance is the most perishable art and recording the most durable; a career sits between the two.
His work was formally recognised with the Pride of Performance, Nigar Awards and Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize.
Working from Pakistan shaped what was possible - the audiences within reach, the institutions that would have him, the language the work first appeared in.
Death came in 1997, at 49. By then the contribution had passed into the settled record.
Achievements
- Worked as singer, composer and music educator
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