His voice has won the hearts of mil­lions of lis­ten­ers across the world. He is the win­ner of nu­mer­ous awards, in­clud­ing Best Singer, at the pres­ti­gious 2010 Film­fare Awards and the 2011 Star Screen Awards. Ra­hat Fateh Ali Khan will be com­ing to Trinidad for the first time to per­form in what is be­ing dubbed The Ul­ti­mate Con­cert Ex­pe­ri­ence.Ra­hat is cur­rent­ly on a sold-out North Amer­i­can tour of 27 ma­jor cities and is sched­uled to per­form in Trinidad on May 14 at the Cen­tre of Ex­cel­lence, Ma­coya.

Us­tad Ra­hat Fateh Ali Khan was born in Faisal­abad, Pun­jab in 1974 and was trained from a young age un­der his un­cle, the renowned Us­tad Nus­rat Fateh Ali Khan, in the clas­si­cal tra­di­tion of Qawwali, a de­vo­tion­al mu­sic of the Su­fi peo­ples.Beau­ti­ful­ly en­tranc­ing and at times haunt­ing, the po­et­ry and prose of the lyrics in Qawwali are de­liv­ered on melodies and rhythms con­sid­ered to be one of the most pas­sion­ate forms of East­ern mu­sic.This foun­da­tion was the ba­sis for his suc­cess­ful tran­si­tion in­to Bol­ly­wood and pop­u­lar mu­sic, and to­day he en­joys mon­u­men­tal main­stream suc­cess as is ev­i­dent from the pop­u­lar­i­ty of his mu­sic and the many awards that he con­tin­ues to win.

Ra­hat made his de­but as a Bol­ly­wood play­back singer in 2001 with the movie Paap, fea­tur­ing the hit song Mann Ki La­gan.His con­sis­tent­ly pop­u­lar re­leas­es are fea­tured in some of the biggest and high­est gross­ing Bol­ly­wood films of to­day and in­clude O Re Piya from Aa­ja Nach­le and Jiya Dhadak Dhadak Jaye from Ka­lyug, both of which are wild­ly pop­u­lar in T&T as well.He will be ac­com­pa­nied on stage by Trinidad's pre­mier East In­di­an dance com­pa­ny, the bmo­bile Shiv Shak­ti Dance Com­pa­ny, as well as oth­er top artistes.A spe­cial fu­sion treat is be­ing planned just for the lo­cal au­di­ence.

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