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Random Cover of the Week: Jeff Buckley Covers Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

January 17, 2008 in Music, covers by Sean | No comments

I’ve been on a big Jeff Buckley kick lately. I just finished reading a book about him in general, and specifically about the making of Grace. It discusses at length how much of an influence Qawwali, a style of singing rooted in mystical sects of Islam, was on his style. His favorite Qawwali singer was Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, a Pakastani singer who was known as The Emperor of Qawwali.

Here’s Buckley covering Ali Khan’s “Yeh Jo Halka Halka Saroor Hai”, from Live at Sin-é: