I used to tell my listeners that Qawwali music was not music made by cute little furry Australian arboreal creatures, but rather, sufi gospel music from Pakistan. The term, Qawwali, means ‘utterance’ ...
A different kind of crossover dream — one without guest rappers or drippy diva duets — marks the fiercely independent, vastly experimental sounds of Indian artist Vishal Vaid and Pakistani group ...
Qawwali, the soulful Sufi devotional music of Pakistan and India, no longer enjoys the mainstream attention it did before its greatest practitioner, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, died in 1997. There are ...
Radio 3's Lopa Kothari talks with Jaswinder Singh from the Asian Arts Agency about the Sufi devotional singing of the Rizwan Qawwali Orchestra. Led by the nephews of singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, ...
A daily chronicle of creativity in film, TV, music, arts, and entertainment, produced by Southern California Public Radio and broadcast from November 2014 – March 2020. Host John Horn leads the ...
The Pakistan High Commission in Singapore, in collaboration with The Esplanade Theatre, organized a captivating evening of Qawwali titled “At the Feet of the Beloved” to commemorate 60th anniversary ...