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The Grand Day

Hello Everyone! I hope you will really enjoy the forthcoming 9 days, "The Navratras" with a festive, Indian, Holy spirit to it. Today as you read is the beginning of Navratras- the nine holy nights dedicated to Goddess Durga, the first being today. But what interests me more is something else. This date 13 October 1948, in Faisalbad, Punjab, Pakistan, born to "Fateh Ali Khan" was a God in Disguise, called "Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan". The "SHAHENSHAH-AI-QAWAALI" meaning the King of Qawali, THE NUSRAT FATEH ALI KHAN " SAHAB ". Some one for whom the word "MAESTRO", " USTAAD  " would have been invented. The world knows him by his voice. If anyone who has heard him once anytime has fallen prey to his voice trap. That feeling of trance, is nowhere to find. In a time when Qawali artists were looked down upon, Nusrat Sahab's father wished for him to choose a much more respectable profession. The first ever ...