"Hello…mic check," boomed a voice at the presentation on 'Qawwali Music and the Sufi Poetry Tradition' on the second day of the fifth Karachi Literature Festival. A ...

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The singers in Pakistani ensemble the Saami Brothers like to take their time onstage—each vocal step moves the performance upward gradually toward a collective sense of ecstasy. That deliberate pacing ...

It’s not every day you hear qawwalis in Melbourne’s Fed Square. The centuries-old form of Sufi devotional music has long offered healing through rhythm, repetition and poetry. In Pakistan, the ...

ISLAMABAD: Serena hotels hosted a soulful Qawwali night featuring world renowned Qawal Asif Ali Santoo on Friday 31st May 2019 in Islamabad. The event was hosted under the cultural diplomacy ...

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, ...

The qawwali, a musical genre closely associated with Islamic Sufi tradition, has evolved over the generations to include not just devotion, but romance, comedy and even social commentary in its fold.

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 ...