Qawwali is a musical form associated with the sama’, spiritual concert, of the Chishti Sufi Order. In its religious context it functions as a way to bring members of the order into a trance-like state ...

Pakistan is remembering today the legendary qawwali singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan on his 70th birth anniversary. Known as the king of qawwali, the maestro was born in Faisalabad on October 13 1948 into ...

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan is widely credited for bringing global attention to Qawwali music, extending the 600yr old Qawwali tradition of his family. By the time of his death following a heart attack, ...

ISLAMABAD: Renowned Pakistani musician Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan’s 65rd birthday was observed on October 13 across the world of music. Khan was popularly known as Shahenshah-e-Qawwali, meaning King of ...

When legendary qawwal Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan was asked what it takes to be a great qawwali singer, he said, "To be a ...

or Hadiqa Kiani, who stole a nation’s heart with a song called ‘Boohey Barian’ two decades ago, altruism holds as much importance as music, if not more. About two months ago, Kiani was in Balochistan ...

*I had to watch a whole lot of Bollywood qawwali item numbers to figure out how actors are supposed to behave during a qawwali song. I'm still working on that problem, but I have a coherent theory now ...

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“There are certain things that must be done for the sake of history.” That was Manjari Chaturvedi’s motivation for curating the Qawwali Photo Project, an exhibition of photographs featuring the lives ...

ISLAMABAD: Art lives on, even after artists die, because the hat, or in this case, turban, passes on to the next generation. Uxi Mufti, a known cultural critic, made this reference on Thursday while ...

Pakistan, Oct. 7 -- In line with the directives of reviving the rich cultural and historical heritage of Karachi, the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) organized a soulful Qawwali Night in honor ...