D O B February 26,1965
Languages Hindi
Place of Birth Lahore, Pakistan
Known For Singer
Married N/A

Biography Shafqat Amanat Ali Khan is a Pakistani classical singer belonging to Patiala Gharana lineage He is the youngest brother of the late Asad Amanat Ali Khan He was the lead vocalist of the Pakistani rock band Fusion He was awarded the President's Pride of Performance civil award on August Shafqat Amanat Ali was born in Lahore to Ustad Amanat Ali Khan on th February making him the seventh generation of Patiala Gharana He received his bachelor's degree from Government College University Lahore now known as GC University He received the role of honor from the Music Society of Government College University Lahore which is led by Tariq Farani son of UM Saleem Shah He started learning classical music at age four his grandmother being his first teacher His main influences in music come from his father and his uncle Bade Fateh Ali Khan Aankhon Ke Saagar Khamaj Ankhiyan and Mitwa are some of his most popular works He also sang the song Phir Wohi Raastey and Allah megh de for a Pakistani film named Ramchand Pakistani Shafqat was introduced to bollywood by Shankar Mahadevan One morning while driving to his studio he heard Shafqat's hit song aankhon ke sagar on More FM He immediately called the radio jockey who was his friend and got shafqat's contact number Shafqat sang Mitwa composed by Shankar Ehsaan Loy for the movie Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna The song was listed in the top charts in India helping propel Shafqat into stardom He was the voice behind the critically acclaimed song Yeh Honsla sic in the Bollywood film Dor He also sang background for the films Hello Mumbai Cutting His songs - Mora Saiyaan and Tere Bina were featured in Nagesh Kukunoor's Hyderabad Blues After leaving the band Fuzon in Shafqat concentrated on his solo career Based on Folk and sufi works the album Tabeer was commissioned and released by Music Today the world over in mid September The album was released by Fire records in Pakistan in September as their Mega Eid release The entire album has been recorded mixed and mastered in Pakistan by Shani Zeeshan at Couple of good studios All songs except Naina and Tu hi tu hai have been composed by Shafqat The first video of the premier song of the album Khairheyan De Naal was aired on all channels in India and Pakistan citation needed He has fondly been nick-named the Rock star Ustad by Saleem Merchant of the Saleem- Suleman duo He also appeared on the Rubaroo episode of Indian Idol Shafqat Amanat Ali has also sung the song Shukriya Zindagi from film Aashayein starring John Abraham He also lent his voice for song Tum mile rock version in movie Tum mile starring Emran Hashmi and Soha Ali Khan He released his second solo album called Kyun Dooriyan in It also included a couple of songs namely Kaga Ja and Naal Naal which he had written during his time with Fuzon His vocals in the song Bin Tere from the movie I Hate Luv Storys fetched him a nomination for Filmfare Award for Best Male Playback Singer for the year His album Kyun Dooriyan was nominated for best album in Indipop category in Mirchi Music award He has al He also sung the song pakhida in the sufi rock album Arrk He along with shruti pathak recorded the first song for Coke Studio MTV an indian version of the famous coke studio Recently he sung the song Darmiyaan for movie Jodi Breakers starring R Madhavan and Bipasha Basu