Ahmed Ali Akbar is getting married! The much-anticipated wedding festivities of the Parizaad star have finally begun, and the ...

Qawwali has a deeply religious history dating ... The Nooran Sisters (Jyoti and Sultana) are two of the best known female stars of the genre. They came to fame on MTV India's talent show Sound ...

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 ...

Qawwali is a form of devotional music that expresses the mystical Sufi practice of Islam in South Asia, mainly in areas of Afghanistan, Pakistan and India. The term qawwali comes from the Arabic word ...

The pre-wedding festivities continued with a grand qawwali night, hosted by Salman Iqbal, CEO of ARY Digital Network, and his wife, Sonya Khan. The event was an intimate gathering with close ...

This is not the most widely covered qawwali song, but building on Khan ... But the song lives and breathes best in Nusrat’s own live versions, stretching out and building to multiple climaxes.

The result in both cases was music that blended soulful Qawwali music with a more Western style. Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan's 'Intoxicated Spirit' was nominated for a Grammy award in 1997 for Best ...