Rolling Stone ranks NFAK among top 200 singers

San Francisco: The legendary Qawwal Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan had been featured in American top magazine called Rolling Stone’s list of 200 Best Singers of All Time claiming the 91st number on the list.

The magazine wrote: “Watching archival performances of the late Pakistani vocal master Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan — an icon in the realm of Qawwali, a type of Sufi devotional song, whose family’s musical legacy stretched back hundreds of years — it’s 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’s Real World label”.

It further stated that the Qawal’s many famous fans included Madonna, Eddie Vedder (who duetted with him on the Dead Man Walking soundtrack), and Jeff Buckley (who called the singer “my Elvis” and studied Urdu in order to properly cover him).

The famous bollywood singer Lata Mangeshkar was spotted at 84, while Bruce Springsteen, Elton John, Bob Marley, Usher, Chuck Berry, Stevie Nicks, Taylor Swift, Bono, Michael Jackson, Amy Winehouse, João Gilberto, Billie Eilish, Rosalia, Burna Boy among others were also on the list.