Ask if his uncle’s stardom helped him make a mark as a singer, and Rahat says, "It made things even more difficult for me.
The 41-year-old, who has crooned various Bollywood chartbusters, adds that being Khan’s successor was challenging for him. Listen to Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan here Whenever he was angry with someone, he would not talk to the person for weeks and months," he says. He was very strict when it came to music. After he would sing a line, he would ask me to repeat, and I used to get petrified. "Bahut khaufnaaq mahaul banta tha (it used to be scary). The singer says that he would get cold feet whenever he would practise with Khan. This quality is one of my fondest memories of him.Harmonium or gaayaki ko chodke unka aur koi shaukh nahi tha (he didn’t have any other interest besides playing the harmonium and singing)." He was a very quiet person, and he had all his conversations via singing.
On Teacher’s Day (September 5), while reminiscing about his youth, and the time spent with his illustrious uncle, Rahat says, "I have tried to inherit his gaayaki (style of singing). He grew up under the tutelage of legendary Sufi and qawwali singer, late Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, who was also his paternal uncle. But Pakistani singer Rahat Fateh Ali Khan was one of the lucky ones. Not many artistes get the chance to train under icons.
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