{"id":394984,"date":"2023-01-03T17:48:38","date_gmt":"2023-01-03T12:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/?p=394984"},"modified":"2023-01-03T17:49:25","modified_gmt":"2023-01-03T12:49:25","slug":"rolling-stone-honors-nusrat-fateh-ali-khan-among-200-greatest-singers-of-all-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/rolling-stone-honors-nusrat-fateh-ali-khan-among-200-greatest-singers-of-all-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Rolling Stone Honors Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Among ‘200 Greatest Singers of All Time’"},"content":{"rendered":"

The American magazine Rolling Stone <\/em>has placed the late Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (NFAK) has been named as of the 200 Best Singers of All Time, and Pakistanis are incredibly proud.<\/p>\n

He was ranked 91st<\/sup> on the list which also includes Jeon Jungkook<\/a> of BTS, South Korean singer-songwriter IU, late Indian vocalist Lata Mangeshkar, and Canadian singer, The Weeknd.<\/p>\n

An article in the new year edition of Rolling Stone read:<\/p>\n

Watching archival performances of the late Pakistani vocal master Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan \u2014 an icon in the realm of Qawwali, a type of Sufi devotional song, whose family\u2019s musical legacy stretched back hundreds of years \u2014 it\u2019s easy to lose track of time, and to hear how his music easily reached global audiences in the eighties when he began performing abroad and recording for Peter Gabriel\u2019s Real World label.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The article highlighted NFAK’s ability to win hearts everywhere in the world.<\/p>\n

“His many famous fans included Madonna, Eddie Vedder (who duetted with him on the Dead Man Walking soundtrack), and Jeff Buckley (who called the singer \u201cmy Elvis\u201d and studied Urdu in order to properly cover him).”<\/p>\n

The article ended with NFAQ’s quote from an interview in 1996 (a year before he died): \u201cWhen I sing, I sing with the depth of my heart.”<\/p>\n\t\t

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The Nightingale of India, Lata Mangeshkar took the 84th<\/sup> spot on the list.\u00a0Rolling Stones\u00a0<\/em>defined her as an “empress of playback singers,” “the Melody Queen,” and “the cornerstone of Indian pop music.”<\/p>\n

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It added,<\/p>\n

The Melody Queen’s crystalline, endlessly feminine voice is a cornerstone of Indian pop music, with a global impact disseminated via Bollywood cinema, whose golden age she defined.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The American magazine Rolling Stone has placed the late Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (NFAK) has been named as of the 200 Best Singers of All Time, and Pakistanis are incredibly proud. He was ranked 91st on the list which also includes Jeon Jungkook of BTS, South Korean singer-songwriter IU, late Indian vocalist Lata Mangeshkar, and Canadian singer, The Weeknd. […] More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":96,"featured_media":394993,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1294,2576,2540,2579,2507,2562],"tags":[],"adace-sponsor":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-394984","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bollywood","8":"category-celebrity-news","9":"category-international","10":"category-music","11":"category-singer","12":"category-song"},"wps_subtitle":"It dubbed the late qawwali maestro as the 'voices of the ages'.","img_urls":{"thumbnail":["https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Ustaad-Nusrat-Fateh-Ali-Khan-364x205.jpg",364,205,true],"medium":["https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Ustaad-Nusrat-Fateh-Ali-Khan-758x424.jpg",758,424,true],"full":["https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Ustaad-Nusrat-Fateh-Ali-Khan.jpg",1000,560,false]},"author_name":"Syed Hassaan Ahmed","categories_name":["Bollywood","Celebrity News","International","Music","Singer","Song"],"title_text":"Rolling Stone Honors Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Among \u2018200 Greatest Singers of All Time\u2019","related_stories":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?filter&per_page=4&categories=1294,2576,2540,2579,2507,2562&exclude=394984","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/96"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394984"},{"taxonomy":"adace-sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/adace-sponsor?post=394984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}