Guess I'll answer my own question here; cross-posted from the ambient
list.
Bill
quoted 82 lines From: DMB5561719@aol.com
> From: DMB5561719@aol.com
> Subject: (amb) Late Breaking News: Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, 49, heart attack
>
> Filed at 2:32 p.m. EDT
>
> By The Associated Press
>
> LONDON (AP) -- Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, the most popular
> singer in Pakistan whose songs also appeared in the films
> ``Dead Man Walking'' and ``Natural Born Killers,'' died
> Saturday in a London hospital.
>
> Khan was considered one of the world's greatest singers of
> Sufi devotional music. Sufis are Islamic mystics, and music
> plays a key role in many of their rituals.
>
> Khan, 49, was admitted to Cromwell Hospital last week
> when he arrived for medical treatment and for business,
> said Samine Parvez, spokeswoman for the Pakistan
> Embassy in London.
>
> She said the singer, who suffered from liver and weight
> problems, was rushed to the hospital directly from the
> airport and then suffered a cardiac arrest on Saturday.
>
> Preparations were being made to fly his body home to
> Lahore, Pakistan, on a PIA national airliner late Saturday,
> Parvez said.
>
> Khan recorded dozens of cassettes in Pakistan, where he
> enjoyed a huge, fervent following that spanned generations.
>
> He was renowned worldwide for his songs of religious
> devotion in Urdu, long performances that build in emotion
> and complexity to the backdrop of stringed instruments
> and the harmonium. The distinctive style is known as
> qawwali.
>
> In recent years, he gained a following in the West. He
> performed in the United States and recorded duets with
> Eddie Vedder on the soundtrack to ``Dead Man Walking.''
> Other Western musicians, such as Joan Osborne, Peter
> Gabriel and Jeff Buckley, praised his work.
>
> Khan also had songs on soundtrack for ``Natural Born
> Killers.''
>
> He once said singing before Pakistani and American
> audiences was vastly different, but he enjoyed both
> because he wanted ``everybody in the world to listen to my
> music.''
>
> ``In Pakistan, when I sing, people understand my language,
> what I'm talking about and where I'm going to go with my
> music,'' he said. ``In America, people listen to me because
> of my voice and its fluidity.''
>
> Khan was born in Faisalabad, in Pakistan's eastern Punjab
> province. For hundreds of years, members of his family
> have been singers of qawwali. Khan's father, also a
> prominent qawwali singer, originally discouraged him from
> the profession.
>
> In recent years, traditionalists and qawwali purists criticized
> his cross-over work.
>
> Khan was married and has a daughter. There was no
> immediate word on funeral arrangements.
>
> When I heard this on the radio I expected Ravi Shankar. A real suprise.
>
>
> just the news...
>
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