{"id":7550,"date":"2020-12-09T08:21:20","date_gmt":"2020-12-09T08:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/?p=7550"},"modified":"2020-12-09T08:21:20","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T08:21:20","slug":"birthday-special-remembering-hit-songs-of-rahat-fateh-ali-khan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/2020\/12\/09\/birthday-special-remembering-hit-songs-of-rahat-fateh-ali-khan\/","title":{"rendered":"Birthday special: Remembering hit songs of Rahat Fateh Ali Khan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><strong>Lahore: Today marks 46th birthday of singing maestro Rahat Fateh Ali Khan.<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lahore: Today marks 46<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0birthday of singing maestro Rahat Fateh Ali Khan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rahat was born into a South Asian musical family and began formal training at the age of seven.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He is the nephew of sub-continent&#8217;s legendary Qawwal Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and also had the honour of studying and performing under the tutelage of his uncle referred to as \u201cKing of Qawwali\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rahat has more than 50 albums to his credit and has performed in numerous high-profile concerts around world. He has sung more than a hundred and fifty songs in both Lollywood and Bollywood.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In June last year, Khan was awarded with an honorary degree from the prestigious Oxford University.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He is among eight other individuals who have received their honorary degrees at the ceremony.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Oxford University had described him as a &#8220;Pakistani singer, primarily of Qawali, a devotional music of Muslim Sufis&#8221;, while announcing that he will be conferred with an honorary degree.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore: Today marks 46th birthday of singing maestro Rahat Fateh Ali Khan. Lahore: Today marks 46th\u00a0birthday of singing maestro Rahat Fateh Ali Khan. Rahat was born into a South Asian musical family and began formal training at the age of seven. He is the nephew of sub-continent&#8217;s legendary Qawwal Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7551,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7550","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7552,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7550\/revisions\/7552"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}