Nearly two years after Pakistan's foremost qawwali singer Amjad Sabri was gunned down in Karachi, the devotional music of Islam's Sufi mystical sect is struggling to survive, as fears of sectarianism ...
Pakistani mourners gather around an ambulance carrying the coffin of Sufi musician Amjad Sabri during his funeral in Karachi on June 23, 2016. Thousands of Pakistanis on June 23 thronged the streets ...
Pakistani devotees of qawwali music refer to Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan as "the voice of heaven." This double-CD release—featuring the last tracks he recorded before his death in 1997—is a stirring… By ...
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Cairo resonates with Pakistani Qawwali
Pakistan joined the 18th 'World Samaa International Festival for Chanting and Spiritual Music' in Egypt on Thursday as an honorary guest, marking a significant cultural presence at an event regarded ...
<!-- missing image http://blogs.kcrw.com/rhythmplanet/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/blog-spacer.jpg -->Today’s show is a little different: it simply features three ...
Pakistan is mourning the death of one of its most famous musicians, a Sufi Muslim who was shot dead in an attack claimed by the Taliban, who consider his music blasphemous. Amjad Sabri, 45, was ...
Amjad Sabri, one of Pakistan’s most well-known Sufi musicians, was gunned down Wednesday in the southern city of Karachi. Sabri, 45, was the victim of what police are calling a targeted killing. Two ...
Qawwali maestro Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan's family has been bound to the shrine of Baba Farid Ganj Shakar for the past 800 years. The family legend is that the Sufi saint blessed them with their heritage ...
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