He carries this music inside him, wherever he goes, and so, he finds it wherever he goes. If music has given me peace, what more can I ask of it?” But, always, he aims to share the gift that music has given him with the world.
His musical repertoire has expanded to include contemporary styles of music. Whatever it may have been, Khan Sahab felt it.Ĭhosen by Ustad Nusrat as his heir, Khan Sahab took the helm of his family’s qawwali legacy and has since then gone on to sing thousands of songs, at home and abroad. “What would a 7-year-old kid understand in a qalaam written by Jami or Rumi in Persian?” he now asks in retrospect. “While playing cricket, I’d be practicing anything that had taught me.” This was more than mere practice for Khab Sahab, it became a connection to his soul and he often found himself moved to tears by music, especially while listening to his grandfather’s performances. Let him do riyaaz today),” would be Ustad Nusrat’s reply.įrom Antakshari to Cricket, everything related back to music for Khan Sahab. “Paaji yeh ay school nahin gaaya? (Hasn’t he gone to school?),” she’d ask her cousin. Upon hearing his voice, Khan Sahab fondly remembers, his mother who thought she had sent him off to school, would discover the two mid-riyaaz. Since he was old enough to have gained awareness, he has been singing, skipping school to join his uncle for his daily morning riyaaz as a young child.
Through this tradition, Khan Sahab was born with music in his veins. Khan Sahab comes from a 600-year-old line of musical heritage in qawwali - his grandfather, Ustad Fateh Ali Khan, was a legend in the field and his uncle, Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, is credited by many to have singlehandedly revived qawwali, bringing it into the mainstream and the international stage. But when he starts singing, there is no mistaking it: this is the voice that moves thousands of fans to tears, giving them the freedom to experience music with complete abandon. Off-stage, he is gentle and genial, taking compliments with a polite smile, sharing jokes with the house band. When you meet Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, it’s hard to place him as the same person who creates such an intense energy on any stage that he occupies.
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