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Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

1948 - 1997

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Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (Punjabi: نصرت فتح علی خان; born Pervez Fateh Ali Khan; 13 October 1948 – 16 August 1997) was a Pakistani singer, songwriter, and music director. He was primarily a singer of qawwali — a form of Sufi devotional music. Sometimes called the "Shahenshah-e-Qawwali" (the King of Kings of Qawwali), he is considered by The New York Times to be the greatest qawwali singer of his generation. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan has received more than 6,293,295 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 47 in 2019). Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan is the 930th most popular singer (down from 896th in 2019), the 59th most popular biography from Pakistan (down from 57th in 2019) and the most popular Pakistani Singer.

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  • 6.3M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.16

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 49

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.58

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 6.36

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among SINGERS

Among singers, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan ranks 930 out of 3,528. Before him are Lightnin' Hopkins, Zsuzsa Koncz, Ayumi Hamasaki, Eydie Gormé, Adolphe Nourrit, and Serhat. After him are Nikolai Slichenko, María Dolores Pradera, S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, Kićo Slabinac, Leland Sklar, and Helen Reddy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1948, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan ranks 315. Before him are Mizengo Pinda, Mykhaylo Fomenko, Ludwig Scotty, Jim Walton, Bernhard Russi, and Vinko Jelovac. After him are Manuel Clemente, Selda Bağcan, M. C. Gainey, Dušan Kovačević, Wolfgang Haas, and Koloman Gögh. Among people deceased in 1997, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan ranks 166. Before him are Tony Williams, Shinichi Hoshi, Denver Pyle, Mohammad-Ali Jamalzadeh, Jurek Becker, and Arthur Machado. After him are Jarl Kulle, Adriana Caselotti, Corneliu Baba, Tete Montoliu, Jeane Dixon, and Diosdado Macapagal.

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In Pakistan

Among people born in Pakistan, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan ranks 59 out of 180. Before him are Faiz Ahmad Faiz (1911), Hamida Banu Begum (1527), Malala Yousafzai (1997), Muhammad Rafiq Tarar (1929), Tariq Ali (1943), and Shehbaz Sharif (1951). After him are Yash Chopra (1932), Prithviraj Kapoor (1906), Farooq Leghari (1940), L. K. Advani (1927), Bahlul Lodi (1406), and Raaj Kumar (1926).

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Among SINGERS In Pakistan

Among singers born in Pakistan, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan ranks 1. After him are Bade Ghulam Ali Khan (1902), Shamshad Begum (1919), Surinder Kaur (1929), Abida Parveen (1954), Nazia Hassan (1965), Ghazala Javed (1988), Amjad Sabri (1970), and Atif Aslam (1983).

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