22 Oct 2011

Qawwali

A form of Sufi attachment music, Qawwali is popular in Pakistan, India particularly in the Delhi, Hyderabad and other parts of northern India, Sindh and Punjab regions of Pakistan. More than 700 years old musical tradition Qawwali has also gained conventional popularity.


 
Qawali By Rahat Fateh Ali


At first it was presented primarily at Sufi temples throughout in South Asia. Qawwali received global publicity by the exertion of the late Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, who was a great Pakistani singer.

A world-renowned Pakistani musician Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan was born in Faisalabad (October 13, 1948). He was primarily a Qawwali singer; he was measured as one of the supreme singers in six-octave vocal range.


 
Qawali by Nusrat Fateh Ali


Most of Qawwali singers are able to perform at a high level of intensity for several hours. There are many other famous Qawwali singers include Pakistan's Aziz Mian, Bahauddin Qutbuddin, Abida Parveen, Noor Jahan, Rahat Fateh Ali, Munni Begam, Amjad Sabri, and Abida Khanum and Sabri Brothers and Indian singers Asad Khan, Dr. Shruti Saxena.

 
Qawali by Aziz Mian



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