Rahat Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan is a musician, and primarily, a singer of
Qawali, a devotional music of the Sufiss. He is the nephew of Ustad Nusrat
Fateh Ali Khan. In addition to Qawali, he also performs ghazalss and other
light music. He has toured extensively and performed in Pakistan, India and all
around the world.
He was born in
1974 in Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan into a family of traditional musicians.
The son of Farrukh Fateh Ali Khan, Rahat was trained by his uncle Nusrat Fateh
Ali Khan in the art of classical music and Qawali. Under the tutelage of his
uncle, his first public performance was at the age of eleven.
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