![]() Shortly before his death, he composed music for three Bollywood films, which includes the film Aur Pyaar Ho Gaya, in which he also sang for 'Koi Jaane Koi Na Jaane' on-screen with the lead pair, and 'Zindagi Jhoom Kar'. Khan contributed songs to, and performed in, several Pakistani films. Samdani also told him that he would become a great singer. Nusrat was known as Pervaiz until he visited Ghulam Ghaus Samdani who changed his name to Nusrat Fateh Ali. He is the uncle of singer Rahat Fateh Ali Khan. In 1964, Khan's father died, leaving his musical education under the supervision of his paternal uncles, Mubarak Ali Khan and Salamat Ali Khan. He began by learning the tabla before moving on to vocals. However, Khan showed such an aptitude for and interest in Qawwali, that his father finally relented. He had his heart set on Nusrat choosing a much more respectable career path and becoming a doctor or engineer because he felt Qawwali artists had low social status. Initially, his father did not want Khan to follow the family's vocation. ![]() The tradition of qawwali in the family had passed down through successive generations for almost 600 years. ![]() Khan's family, which included four older sisters and a younger brother, Farrukh Fateh Ali Khan, grew up in central Faisalabad. ![]() He was the fifth child and first son of Fateh Ali Khan, a musicologist, vocalist, instrumentalist, and qawwal. His ancestors learned music and singing there and adopted it as a profession. His family originates from Basti Sheikh in Jalandhar. Khan was born in a Punjabi Muslim family in Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan, in 1948, shortly after the partition of India in 1947 during which his family had migrated to Pakistan from their native city of Jalandhar in Punjab, in the village of Pholiwala, British India (now in Punjab, India). ![]()
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