This playlist features Pakistani and Indian world music artists I deeply admire. They bent the rules and took chances, creating something new and sublime along the way. The most famous female qawwal, ...

The database started out with 250 songs in 2021 with funding support from the India Foundation for the Arts in Bangalore, and now the number has swelled to 800 and counting. It includes music from ...

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 ...

LAHORE: Qawwali performance does not have to be religiously motivated or oriented towards the divine. It is an expression of love and can be addressed to the divine in any of its multiple conceptions ...

KARACHI: Thriving for almost 32 centuries, the rich historical tradition of Qawwali was the topic of a workshop at the National Academy of Performing Arts on Sunday. From Vedic chants to becoming a ...

On what would have been the 77th birth anniversary of the legendary Qawwal Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, his ancestral Haveli in Faisalabad stands as a haunting reminder of official neglect. Once ...

Sufi artistes Fareed Ayaz and Abu Mohammad made their debut in Coke Studio’s season 4 with ‘Kangna’, which eventually found its way to The Reluctant Fundamentalist’s soundtrack. Ever since then, the ...

Riyaaz Qawwali has been performing the gripping musical style of qawwali for over 16 years. The musicians, all settled in Houston, have roots from India, Pakistan, Nepal, and Bangladesh with various ...

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, ...