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, ...

Qawwali has historically been upheld by gharanas that boast of an affinity with the genre that dates back to the time of Amir Khusrow. However, changing trends of the music industry in recent times ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Rizwan-Muazzam Qawwal, one of the famous Sufi singing groups of Pakistan, will be in the United Sates where nephews of the legendry Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan will engage Qawwali lovers with their soulful ...

After paying tribute to Diriliş: Ertuğrul in 2020 and making her acting debut earlier this month, Tamgha-e-Imtiaz recipient and celebrated singer Hadiqa Kiani has stepped into the realm of qawwali ...

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, ...