LEGENDARY PAKISTANI SINGERS IN MUSIC INDUSTRY

Music is a language of emotions that connects the listener to the music artist,

It connects the people from different places, there are a lot of Pakistani legendary singers that gathered their love from Pakistan as well as from different parts of the world also.

Let`s read some interesting things about those artists.

Nusrat Fateh Ali khan

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, (born October 13, 1948, Lyallpur [now Faisalabad], Pakistan. He was a Pakistani Vocalist who mainly used to perform Qawwali, (a form of Sufi Islamic devotional music.), Khan Sahab was also popularly known as Shahenshah-e-Qawwali (Kings of Qawwali)&this artist belongs to the ‘Qawwal Bachon ka Gharana’ (the house of Qawwal Children)

His father Fateh Ali Khan was a distinguished musicologist, vocalist, instrumentalist, and skilled Qawwali performer. Nusrat showed such an aptitude for, and interest in, the tradition that his father eventually relented and began to train him in the technique. Unexpectedly, Ustad Fateh Ali Khan died in 1964, after this incident Nusrat moved on with making Qwwaali his career, and his 1stperformance was after forty days of his father`s funeral& became the head of the qawwali family in 1971.

He gave his first hit song Haq Ali Ali which was first performed in a traditional style and with traditional instrumentation. In the early 1980s. Khan went on to release movie scores and albums in Europe, India, Japan, Pakistan, and the U.S. He engaged in collaborations and experiments with Western artists, becoming a well-known world music artist &Fath Sahab performed in over 40 countries at that time.

In Japan, he was also remembered as the Budai or “Singing Buddha”. In 1997, he was nominated for two Grammy Awards, for Best Traditional Folk Album and Best World Music Album. As of 2001, he held the Guinness World Record for the “Most Qawwali Recordings”, having recorded over 125 qawwali albums

“Dummast, Ali DUmDUm De Ander, Ye jo Halka Halka Suroor h ,Tumhe dil lgei bhool jani pdegi, Kinna Sohna Tainu, Meri Tauba Meri Tauba” are some of the hits from his collection. Singing in Urdu and his native Punjabi, as well as Persian, and blending traditional stylings with a vast array of outside textures, Nusrat is much credited for the modern evolution of Qawwali. Although not the first to do so, he popularized the blending of khayal singing and techniques with Qawwali; this in short took the form of improvised solos during the songs using the Sargam technique, in which the performer sings the names of the notes he is singing.

The career of the artist was at peak and then he died of a sudden cardiac arrest at Cromwell Hospital on 16 August 1997, aged 48 His body was repatriated to Faisalabad, and his funeral was a public affair. He was buried in Kabootran Wala Qabristan also known as Jhang Road Graveyard on Jhang Road, Faisalabad.

Rahat Fateh Ali Khan

Rahat was born into a Punjabi family of Qawwals and classical singers in Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan on 9 December 1974 He is the son of Farrukh Fateh Ali Khan, grandson of Fateh Ali Khan and the nephew of legendary Qawwali singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. Khan is one of the biggest and highest-paid singers in Pakistan. In addition to Qawwali, he also performs ghazals and other light music& is also popular as a playback singer in Bollywood and the Pakistan film industry.

Rahat performed publicly for the first time, when he was nine, at the death anniversary of his grandfather& then started his singing career in 1997, by singing the song “Kisi Roj Milo human Shaam Dhaley”& a few songs after the death of his uncle Nusrat Fateh Ali khan however these songs were not released due to some reasons, in the year 2002 his song `Mann Ki Lagan` was released in the movie Paap. This Music journey of Rahat Sahab then got the pace in the field, his recent release “Zaroori Tha” from the music album `Back to Love` was a super hit that crossed 200 million.

He displayed an adoration for music from a very young age and was often found to be singing with his uncle and father, as young as three. From an age of seven, he was already being trained by his uncle Nusrat Fateh Ali in the art of singing Qawwali.

Mr. Khan became the first Pakistani to perform at any Nobel Prize concert when he was invited to the concert at the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize ceremony. he also sing many songs from his uncle`s collection which relived the era of Nusrat Fateh Sahab, the songs which he sang from his uncle’s collection led t a controversy of copyright & to this he responded by saying he was the adopted successor of Nusrat and doesn’t need anyone’s permission to sing his songs . He is giving all his best in the music industry.

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Jayesh Tomar