{"id":13948,"date":"2017-08-16T11:52:52","date_gmt":"2017-08-16T06:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=13948"},"modified":"2017-08-16T11:52:52","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T06:52:52","slug":"19th-death-anniversary-of-shahenshah-e-qawwali-being-observe-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=13948","title":{"rendered":"19th\u00a0death anniversary of Shahenshah-e-Qawwali being observe today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ISLAMABAD, Aug 16 (TNS):<\/strong> The\u00a019th\u00a0death anniversary of the legendary \u2018qawwali\u2019 maestro Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan is being observed on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Famous for his\u00a0catchy\u00a0tunes, introduction of traditional Qawwali and heart capturing music to the modern audience, he was also\u00a0 known as \u201cShahenshah-e-Qawwali\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Ustaad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan was\u00a0born\u00a0in Faisalabad on October 13, 1948.<\/p>\n<p>In 1987, the government of Pakistan bestowed Pride of Performance on the legendary singer for his contribution to Pakistani music. Before two years his death, he received the prestigious UNESCO Music Prize.<\/p>\n<p>Khan throughout his music career have received a number of national and international honorary awards<\/p>\n<p>Khan created a world record of releasing as many as 125 audio albums as a Qawwal which includes legendary numbers such as Dum mustt Qalandar mustt\u201a Ali Maula Ali\u201a Yeh Jo Halka Halka Suroor Hai\u201a Mera Pia Ghar Aya and many others.<\/p>\n<p>Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan died on August 16\u201a 1997 due to a cardiac arrest in London.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD, Aug 16 (TNS): The\u00a019th\u00a0death anniversary of the legendary \u2018qawwali\u2019 maestro Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan is being observed on Wednesday. Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Famous for his\u00a0catchy\u00a0tunes, introduction of traditional Qawwali and heart capturing music to the modern audience, he was also\u00a0 known as \u201cShahenshah-e-Qawwali\u201d. Ustaad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan was\u00a0born\u00a0in Faisalabad on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13949,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,23],"tags":[118,589],"class_list":["post-13948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islamabad","category-national","tag-islamabad","tag-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13948"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13950,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13948\/revisions\/13950"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}