London-based qawwali aficionado, banker-turned-producer Kamran Anwar, took it upon himself to preserve what he feared would have become a lost story. A year-long sabbatical to channel his passion for ...

Pierre-Alain Baud was at Theatre de la Ville in Paris by chance. He had just finished listening to a concert by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and Party. Like many other foreign ears, before and since, he was ...

Hamza Akram Qawwal & Brothers will perform SUFI SONGS OF PAKISTAN at Roulette in Brooklyn. The ensemble presents traditional ...

Do you know Javed Akhtar initially walked out of the qawwali song in Main Hoon Na? Anu Malik has revealed that the veteran lyricist objected to the inclusion of English words like "Check that, like ...

Sufi Kathak exponent Manjari Chaturvedi hosted the first edition of the Qawwali Symposium in the city. The objective behind the educational seminar, titled Understanding Qawwali, was to bring the art ...

The murder of the renowned qawwal, Amjad Sabri came as a rude jolt to the popular genre of vocal music, but to think that this will toll a death knell for qawwali would best be described as jumping to ...

An obsessive film watcher, a hardcore pop culture nerd, an ardent dog lover, a big foodie and a compulsive daydreamer who ideates, writes, manages and consumes entertainment. A self-proclaimed ...

We are committed to the purest form of Sufi qawwali that is the classical form and we take immense pride in our 700-year-old legacy,” says Sultan Hussain Niyazi, one of the brothers from the group ...

KARACHI: Renowned writer on arts, culture and history and critic of the art, Ally Adnan said that Qawwali was more than three thousand years old, but this unique type of Hindustani music was still ...