However, Khan showed such an aptitude for and interest in qawwali, that his father finally relented. He had his heart set on Nusrat choosing a much more respectable career path and becoming a doctor or engineer because he felt qawwali artists had low social status. Initially, his father did not want Khan to follow the family's vocation. The tradition of qawwali in the family had passed down through successive generations for almost 600 years. Khan's family, which included four older sisters and a younger brother, Farrukh Fateh Ali Khan, grew up in central Faisalabad. He was the fifth child and first son of Fateh Ali Khan, a musicologist, vocalist, instrumentalist, and qawwal. His ancestors learned music and singing there and adopted it as a profession. His family originates from Basti Sheikh Darvesh, who settled in Jalandhar, Punjab in present-day India. Khan was born into a Punjabi Muslim family family in Lyallpur (modern-day Faisalabad), Punjab, Pakistan, in 1948.
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