Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan was born in Lyallpur, Punjab on 13th October, 1948 to Ustad Fateh Ali Khan.

He was primarily a singer of Qawwali, the devotional music of the Sufis, a mystical offshoot of Islam.

Nusrat's first public performance as leader of the family Qawwali group was in March 1965, at a studio recording broadcast as part of an annual music festival called Jashn-e-Baharan organized by Radio Pakistan.

He reached out to Western audiences with a couple of fusion records produced by Canadian guitarist Michael Brook. In 1995, he collaborated with Eddie Vedder on the soundtrack to Dead Man Walking.

According to the Guinness Book of World Records, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan holds the world record for the largest recorded output by a Qawwali artist—a total of 125 albums.

With his international renown at an all-time peak, Khan died on August 16, 1997; a seemingly endless procession of posthumous releases appeared in the years to follow.