FAISALABAD: On what would have been the 77th birth anniversary of the legendary Qawwal Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, his ...

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, ...

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, ...

I used to tell my listeners that Qawwali music was not music made by cute little furry Australian arboreal creatures, but rather, sufi gospel music from Pakistan. The term, Qawwali, means ‘utterance’ ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Over pulsating drums, vigorous handclaps and harmoniums, the voices come in waves, each higher than the last.

When Sonny Mehta first witnessed the lush harmonies of The Jones Family Singers, a gospel soul group from Texas, he was struck the moment they started singing: “Every moment of interaction is ...

The Houston group discusses bringing ancient Muslim traditions into the contemporary world — and even collaborating on music for a Disney show. Music has long been part of religious practices around ...

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 ...

Junun, the frustrating new documentary by Paul Thomas Anderson, was filmed in the private chambers of a fifteenth-century fort overlooking Jodhpur, a city in northern India. The film opens with a long ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Wednesday evening marks the beginning of Eid al-Fitr in the United States, the celebration to mark the end of Ramadan. Millions celebrate Ramadan in Houston and around the ...