


More recently, his vocals were featured on the soundtrack of Mel Gibson's Apocalypto. Also in 2002, Rahat guested with The Derek Trucks Band on the song "Maki Madni" for Trucks' album, Joyful Noise. In 2002, he worked on the soundtrack of Four Feathers in collaboration with the American composer of orchestral and film music, James Horner. Soundtracks and other projects in the United States In a subordinate role with his uncle Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, working in collaboration with Eddie Vedder, of the American rock band, Pearl Jam, Rahat contributed to the soundtrack of the 1995 Hollywood film Dead Man Walking. Under the tutelage of his uncle, his first public performance was at the age of eleven. The son of Farrukh Fateh Ali Khan, Rahat was trained by his uncle Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan in the art of classical music and Qawwali.

Biography He was born in 1974 in Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan into a family of traditional musicians. He has toured extensively and performed in Pakistan, India and all around the world. In addition to Qawwali, he also performs ghazals and other light music. He is the nephew of Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. 1974 in Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan) is a musician, and primarily, a singer of Qawwali, a devotional music of the Sufis. Other famous Qawwali singers include Pakistan's Fareed Ayyaz & Abu Muhammad, Abdul Habib Ajmeri, Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, Badar Maindad, Nusrat Fateh Ali, Rizwan & Moazzam Duo, the late Amjad Sabri and Bahauddin Qutbuddin and Aabida Parveen.Rahat Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (born. Qawwali music received international exposure through the work of the late Pakistani singers Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Sabri Brothers, and Aziz Mian largely due to several releases on the Real World label, followed by live appearances at WOMAD festivals.

Originally performed at Sufi shrines or dargahs throughout South Asia, it gained mainstream popularity and an international audience in late 20th century. Many Pakistani website have great collection of Islamic qawwali mp3 download facility. It is part of a musical tradition that stretches back for more than 700 years. Qawwali is a form of Sufi Islamic devotional music originating from South Asia, and notably popular in the Punjab and Sindh regions of Pakistan in Hyderabad, Delhi and other parts of India, especially North India as well as the Dhaka, Chittagong and Sylhet divisions of Bangladesh.
