Rahat Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
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Rahat Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan is a singer in the Qawwali style native to Pakistan and India. Son of Farrukh Fateh Ali Khan and nephew of the great Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Rahat took over Ustad Nusrat's Qawwali party after his death in 1997, as Nusrat had no sons of his own. Nusrat had taken him under his wing, and trained him in classical music and Qawwali since a very early age. In an interview, Rahat's father Farrukh has spoken of how Rahat would be receiving musical instruction from Nusrat with a pacifier in his mouth.
Rahat began performing alongside Nusrat at the age of 10; he can be seen in numerous earlier videos of Nusrat. His voice is high-pitched unlike the booming husky voice of Nusrat. His first solo album Janasheen was a great hit, but he has somewhat faltered since then. Being Nusrat's nephew, expectations of him were amazingly high. He also sang for Indian films. His song "Jiya Dhadhak Dhadhak Jaye", for Mahesh Bhatt's movie "Kalyug", became very popular.
Rahat has perfomed live with Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam. He also sang "Maki Madni" for The Derek Trucks Band on 2002's Joyful Noise. Recently, he has also contributed for song Main Jahaan Rahoon in Namastey London a movie by Vipul Shah. This movie should be released in early 2007.
[edit] Film contributions
- Paap (Pooja Bhatt) - "Mann Ki Lagan"
- Kalyug (Mahesh Bhatt) - "Jiya Dhadhak Dhadhak Jaye"
- Omkara (Vishal Bharadwaj) - Naina
- Apocalypto (Mel Gibson)
- Namaste London (Vipul Shah) - "Main Jahaan Rahoon" music by Himesh Reshammiya
- Four Feathers (shekhar kapoor) - Background score.
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