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Fateh Ali Khan (Qawwali singer)
Pakistani singer
Not to be confused with Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, a similarly named Qawwali musician, and son of Fateh Ali Khan.
Fateh Ali Khan Jullundhri Qawwal (1904 – 1964) was a classical singer and a qawwali musician in the 1940s and 1950s.[1][2]
Biography
He was born in Jullundur, Punjab, British India in 1901.[1] Fateh Ali Khan was the father of Pakistani Qawwali musicians, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and Farrukh Fateh Ali Khan.
Their family has an unbroken tradition of Qawwali and is called the Qawwal Bacchon gharana, linked closely to the SufiChishti Order for over 600 years.[3][1][2]
Training
Fateh Ali Khan was trained in classical music and Qawwali by his father, Maula Bakhsh Khan (Ali Khan), and he, soon after his training, distinguished himself as a skilled vocalist and instrumentalist.
He learned to play traditional Indian instruments such as sitar, sarod and vichitraveen