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The famous Pakistani singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan was born on 13 October 1948. (Source: Express photo)
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan is popularly known as "Shahenshah-e-Qawwali". (Source: Express Archive Photo)
Sufi Singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan at a 1997 concert in New Delhi. (Source: Express photo by Raaj Dayal)
The singer shares a light moment with music director Kalyanji. Khan sang mainly in Urdu and Punjabi and occasionally in Persian, Braj Bhasha and Hindi. (Source: Express archive photo)
The Sufi singer's first major hit in Pakistan was the song 'Haq Ali Ali'. (Source: Express archive photo)
The singer is being felicitated along with santoor maestro (2nd from left) Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma, and lyricist-scriptwriter Javed Akhtar. (Source: Express archive photo)
Did you know that Khan's father wanted him to become a doctor because he felt that qawwali artists had a lowly status, but since Khan showed such an aptitude for singing, his father finally relented. (Source: Express photo by Raaj Dayal)
Just before his death in 1997, Khan became a sensation in the Indian film industry after singing two songs for 'Aur Pyaar Ho Gaya' and 'Dillagi'. Here he is seen with singer Bali Sagoo, music director Anu Malik and director Mahesh Bhatt. (Source: Express archive photo)
Khan with actress Aishwarya Rai, scriptwriter and lyricist Javed Akhtar, and actor Bobby Deol on the sets of film 'Aur Pyaar Ho Gaya'. (Source: Express archive photo)
