During the era of Mahmud Ghaznavi, they migrated to India with a saint, Sheikh Darwesh. My forefathers used to live in Ghazni in Afghanistan. How is it that there have been so many singers in your family? He has been singing with me since his childhood. I have a younger brother, Farakh Fateh Ali Khan, who is a good singer. Only someone who has a natural talent can become an artist.
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In the case of my own family, there are many who do not sing, do not even know how to sing.
If he is the son of a good artist, he will have to work even harder because he has to compete with his own father. In order to reach his peak he has to work very, very hard. It is not necessary that the scion of a singing family, even if he sings, can excel in it. Did you start singing simply because you were born in a family of singers or did you have a natural talent? I have a black singer friend, Yousaf Ali Farkha, who is from Zimbabwe. There are also some very good African singers. I like singers who freely use melody ( leh). Khan is respected for being an all-rounder. The present time is the time of all-rounders. She has expressed the desire to sing with me. I like instrumentals most of all, but there are many good singers too, such as Michael Jackson and Tina Turner. Who are your favourite artists in the West? With such collaboration, artists can come closer to each other and come to know each other. There should be change - the West should understand our music and culture, and vice versa. What was it like singing to Western music? A very large British company, Real World, which has a studio in Bath, England. There is a famous musician, Peter Gabriel, who has used my voice in the movie, The Last Temptation of Christ.
In that they have used Western music in the background with our voices. We have a number, Mast, Mast, which was recently released in the West. No, but we are still experimenting with it. Have you tried to introduce Western music into your tunes? The Europeans say we do not care for words, we judge art.
we use rhythm and melody in such a way, that they need not understand our language. They do not understand our language, but we present our art in such a way. What do the Europeans like about your art, given that they do not understand your language? And surprisingly, the audiences had a predominantly European complexion.
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We were playing to full houses, people could not get tickets to our programmes many went away disappointed. People liked our performances very much, particularly in Germany where our programmes were extremely successful. What kind of public response did you receive there? You have recently returned from a six-week tour of Italy, Spain, France and Germany. In this exclusive interview with the Herald, Nusrat speaks about his recent European tour, of his collaboration with Peter Gabriel and other Western recording artists and of the evolution of the art of qawwali in which he has played an integral part. A strong advocate for the revival of pure classical singing, the qawwal maestro intends to establish a music academy and a recording studio in Lahore. Describing himself as an 'all-rounder' in his field, Nusrat has also dabbled in singing ghazals, in which he has attained a fair amount of recognition. Under the musical aegis of his talented uncles, Ustad Mubarak Ali Khan and Ustad Salamat Ali Khan, the Faisalabad-born Nusrat developed a unique and successful style within the qawwali genre, with emphasis on haunting melody and hypnotic rhythm. Taking up a full-time career in singing at the age of 13, after the death of his father in 1964, qawwal extraordinaire Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan has never had to look back.
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