From his classical music training, he would interject much more complex alap improvisations, with more vibrato and note bending. Nusrat was noted for introducing other forms of improvisation into the style. He also performed traditional Qawwali live to Western audiences at several WOMAD world music festivals. Peter Gabriel's Real World label released five albums of Nusrat's traditional Qawwali performances in the West. His contribution to that and several other soundtracks and albums (including The Last Temptation of Christ), as well as his friendship with Peter Gabriel, helped to increase his popularity in Europe and the United States. In 1995, he collaborated with Eddie Vedder on the soundtrack of Dead Man Walking. He reached out to Western audiences with a couple of fusion records produced by Canadian guitarist Michael Brook. Nevertheless the song became a major hit, as many listeners were attracted to the timbre and other qualities of Nusrat's voice. This was performed in a traditional style and with traditional instrumentation, and featured only sparse use of Nusrat's innovative sargam improvisations. In Pakistan, his first major hit was the song Haq Ali Ali.
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 (OctoAugust 16, 1997) was primarily a singer of Qawwali, the devotional music of the Sufis, a mystical offshoot of Islam.
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