Nusrat took over his family's qawwali party in 1971 after the death of his father and his uncle.
Nusrat's family (originally from Afghanistan, though they had been living in Pakistan for a large part of their lives) has an unbroken tradition of performing qawwali for the last 600 years. Traditionally, Qawwali has been a family business.
Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (Punjabi: ?) (OctoAugust 16, 1997) was primarily a singer of Qawwali, the devotional music of the Sufis, a mystical offshoot of Islam.
