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Love & remembrance
Sufism
A mystical path of love, remembrance, poetry and inner refinement.
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Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan was born in West Punjab in 1948 into a family that had sung qawwali for six centuries, and gave his first public performance at fifteen, at his father's chelum. He was known for being able to sustain an extraordinary intensity for hours at a stretch.
Qawwali had been sung at Sufi shrines in Pakistan and India long before he was born; what he did was carry it out of them. Recording for Peter Gabriel's Real World Records, he reached listeners with no connection to the tradition at all, and worked with musicians far outside it, among them Massive Attack and Eddie Vedder. The New York Times called him the greatest qawwali singer of his generation.
He died in 1997, at 48. His recordings remain widely available, and a lost album, Chain of Light, was found and released in 2024.
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