Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Classical !!top!! Jun 2026

Nusrat is one of the few Qawwals to successfully perform a pure Tappa. In the recording Raga Tilak Kamod , he launches into a Tappa passage that sounds like a cascading waterfall of glass beads. The jumps are wider than an octave; the speed is relentless. This is the sound of a man who could have been a court musician in the Mughal era but chose to take it to the masses instead.

This respect for classical music runs as a guiding principle in his family. Nusrat’s father, , was the renowned patriarch of the Patiala gharana in Pakistan, one of the six original stylistic schools of the Khayal genre of Indian classical music [1†L11-L16][12†L4-L10]. He was often referred to as the foremost exponent of classical singing in the subcontinent [3†L9-L12]. nusrat fateh ali khan classical