Everything else is a passing season – wind, rain, sunshine.” Those are the songs I practise for, rehearse for, make money from. He has a huge and mega art.” Khan, to my surprise, is first to point out that a career in pop might not be the best way to do that. So what does daunt him? “I’m not, that’s the major thing.” Deferential as he is to Nusrat and keen to project humility, the angst catches ever so slightly in the air. I came in and did something I had done before to thousands. “I’m telling you,” says Khan, “the Nobel peace prize concert was easy. The two bicker a tiny bit about what constitutes a challenge in Khan’s career. “He’s so committed, he’s not into Bieber like kids his age.” Khan himself agrees: “I was nine when I started training and performing, my son is even more passionate than I was.” Khan’s new manager, a former fan who used to promote his US shows, tells me about the team of 15 full-time employees working for the singer in offices in Dubai, Lahore and Karachi, and about the boss’s 12-year-old son being next in line for a stellar career. You’ve got to keep laughing, greet them politely and play the game.
What about actual politics? He must get courted by the nation’s ruling elite, or have an opinion on Pakistan’s political weather? “My responsibility is to the music and the industry. You’ve got to be careful.” It doesn’t sound much fun. “You don’t know who is fake and who is true, who is playing politics and trying to stab you in the back. After such disillusionment with the music industry, how does he trust anyone? “That’s the thing,” he says, laughing. That was just three years ago, in Manhattan, coming back from a show and fed up with my management and the industry.” Khan switches back and forth between English and Urdu as he speaks. These include ‘Jiya Dhadak Dhak’ ( Kalyug: 2005), ‘Jag Soona Soona Lage’ ( Om Shanti Om: 2007) and ‘Aaj Din Chadeya’ ( Love Aaj Kal: 2009). “The first song I wrote myself was Sab Jhoote. There is little value placed on what we do.” India, he says, has been kinder, which goes some way to explain the 100 or so songs he has recorded for the film industry there, among his 16-album discography. “That journey hasn’t been easy,” he says, looking over the canal from the Guardian offices, “it’s hard for artists to get real respect at home. No one expected him to become a blockbuster entity in his own right. Rahat, then 23, was expected to quietly carry on the family tradition: a stoic commitment to devotional music.
Collaborators, including Peter Gabriel and Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam, lined up to champion his legacy. Less than a year later, at 48 years old and reportedly weighing more than 21 stone (300lb), Nusrat was dead. Massive Attack remixed one of Khan senior’s greatest qawaalis (Dama Dam Mast Qalander) into a dubby club edit producer Rick Rubin signed up “the master” to his label, American Recordings. Twenty years ago this summer, Rahat was performing with his uncle on what would be their last US tour together Madonna and Michael Stipe turned up to their LA shows, Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins to New York. ∙ The Lux Style Awards-Pakistan’s longest-running entertainment awards show-gave Rahat Best Song of the Year honors in 2014, and he’s won three more awards in the years since.Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan in 1989. ∙ In 2014, he became the first Pakistani artist to perform at a Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony, which that year honored his countrywoman Malala Yousafzai.
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∙ He contributed vocals to the 2003 Indian film Paap, and he subsequently built a parallel career as an award-winning playback singer, appearing in over 100 movies and TV shows. ∙ Shortly after Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan’s death in 1997, Rahat assumed leadership of his uncle’s group. ∙ Alongside his uncle and father (acclaimed qawwali singer Farrukh Fateh Ali Khan), Rahat collaborated with Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder on the soundtrack for 1995’s Dead Man Walking. ∙ Chosen to follow in his uncle’s footsteps as a young child, Rahat began formal training at age six and officially joined Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan’s group at age 15. The nephew of legendary qawwali singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Pakistani sufi pop artist Rahat Fateh Ali Khan has become a superstar in his own right while carrying on his uncle’s legacy.
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