

Rahman, who was a big fan of Khan could not do further songs with him. Rahman, and released to celebrate the 50th anniversary of India's independence. Khan contributed the song "Gurus of Peace" to the album Vande Mataram, composed by A.R. The song was released only in 1999, two years after Nusrat's death. He also sang Saya bhi saath jab chhod jaye for Sunny Deol's movie, Dillagi. He sang the title song of the film, Dhadkan. Shortly before his death, he recorded a song each for two Bollywood films, Aur Pyaar Ho Gaya (in which he also sang the song onscreen) and Kachche Dhaage. Khan contributed songs to, and performed in, several Pakistani films. His album Intoxicated Spirit was nominated for a Grammy award in 1997 for best traditional folk album. He also performed traditional Qawwali before international audiences at several WOMAD world music festivals and the single Dam Mast Qalandar was remixed by electronic trip hop group Massive Attack in 1998.
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Nusrat also collabrated with Michael Brook to create music for the song 'Sweet Pain' used in the movie Any Given Sunday. Alanis Morissette was brought in to sing with his unfinished vocals. Nusrat provided vocals for The Prayer Cycle, which was put together by Jonathan Elias, but died before the vocals could be completed.

Peter Gabriel's Real World label later released five albums of Nusrat's traditional Qawwali, together with some of his experimental work which included the albums Mustt Mustt and Star Rise. He also contributed to the soundtrack of Natural Born Killers.

Khan teamed with Peter Gabriel on the soundtrack to The Last Temptation of Christ in 1985, with Canadian musician Michael Brook on the albums Mustt Mustt (1990) and Night Song (1996), and with Pearl Jam lead singer Eddie Vedder in 1995 on two songs for the soundtrack to Dead Man Walking. from the early '80s onwards, and released much of this live material on cassette, CD, videotape and DVD. OSA sponsored regular concert tours by Nusrat to the U.K. The song featured restrained use of Nusrat's sargam improvisations.Įarly in his career, Khan was signed up by Oriental Star Agencies of Birmingham UK to their Star Cassette Label. His first major hit in Pakistan was the song Haq Ali Ali, which was performed in a traditional style and with traditional instrumentation.

Khan sang mainly in Urdu and Punjabi and occasionally in Persian, Brajbhasha and Hindi. Khan's first public performance as the leader of the Qawwali party was at a studio recording broadcast as part of an annual music festival organised by Radio Pakistan, known as Jashn-e-Baharan. In 1971, after the death of Mubarak Ali Khan, Nusrat became the official leader of the family Qawwali party and the party became known as Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Mujahid Mubarak Ali Khan & Party. His first performance was at a traditional graveside ceremony for his father, known as chehlum, which took place forty days after his father's death. Khan's training with his father was cut short when his father died in 1964, leaving Khan's paternal uncles, Mubarak Ali Khan and Salamat Ali Khan, to complete his training. He then went on to learn to sing within the classical framework of khayal. Khan began by learning to play tabla alongside his father before progressing to learn Raag Vidya and Bol Bandish. In 1979, Khan married his first cousin, Naheed (the daughter of Fateh Ali Khan's brother, Salamat Ali Khan) they had one daughter, Nida. Khan's family, which included four older sisters and a younger brother, Farrukh Fateh Ali Khan, grew up in central Lyallpur. He was the fifth child and first son of Fateh Ali Khan, a musicologist, vocalist, instrumentalist, and Qawwal. Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan was born on Octoin the city of Faisalabad, Pakistan.
