In today’s Sci-Fi world, people are dependent on technology for every small personal to professional reason; be it remembering important meetings, or birthdays or even a reminder to drink water. Considering this fact, the most fastest and prime search engine ‘Google’ makes it a point to remind people of birth anniversaries or extremely important days of various people in different genres who have made it big.
Today on account of the legendary Qawwali singer, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan’s 67th birthday, Google paid a tribute to him by creating a Google doodle in his remembrance. The doodle showcases a hypothetical concert in which Nusrat 
Fateh Ali Khan is shown to be singing(his Sufi Music) with a team of sufi musicians playing the harmonium and Tabla inorder to support him in the performance.
Born in Faisalabad (now in Pakistan) on 13th October to carry forward the legacy of a family who already had a 600 year old qawwali tradition. Nusrat was originally named as Pervez Fateh Ali Khan and was fondly called as Paiji. His name was changed from Pervez to Nusrat on demand of a pious Sufi friend who thought the name Pervez was inappropriate since it belonged to Persian King who once had tore up the letter sent to him by the Holy Prophet. The friend then went on to suggest the name Nusrat meaning someone who tells the rosary of Allah, the Holy Prophet and Ali.
Nusrat Fatteh Ali Khan, in his less tenured life span of 48 years, brought fame to the traditional mystic qawwali, a form of sufi devotional music which is more popular in South Asia. He also flawlessly sang ghazals and indulged in jazz fusion and this is what made him regarded as the world’s greatest qawwali singer. To name a few,Some of his work that has remained immortal in our minds are Kinna Sohan Tainu, Piya, Sanu ek pal chain na aave, Tere bin nahi lagda, Mera Piya Ghar Aaya and Afreen Afreen. His sincere contribution to the Sufi and qawaali music industry was what made him receive the President of Pakistan’s Award for Pride of Performance for his extensive contribution to Pakistani music in 1987.
The Shahenshah-e-qawwali as he was called was primarily famous for being able to sustain long performances, some that lasted up to ten hours. Jeff Buckley, a western music legend, had considered Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan to be one his biggest influencers. Buckley also had went on to call him as his “Elvis” and often performed the first few minutes of Khan’s hit songs at his own concerts.
The legendary King of Qawwali left for his heavenly abode on August 16, 1997 succumbing to a cardiac arrest on 11th August 1997 in London, while on the way to Los Angeles in order to receive a kidney transplant. The much loved Rahat Fateh Ali Khan,the present heir and also the nephew of Nusrat Ali Khan has been carrying forward the legacy of the Fateh Ali Khan family ‘s tradition of Sufi and Qawwali music.