KARACHI: After late Qawwal Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan’s daughter, Nida Nusrat, warned about taking legal action over people singing her father’s songs without acquiring permission, famed musician Rahat ...

Islamabad [Pakistan], June 4 (ANI): Acclaimed Pakistani singer Rahat Fateh Ali Khan has said that he does not require anybody's permission to sing the popular Qawwalis of his late uncle, legendary ...

COME winter in Delhi and the municipality hosts some fabulous classical music concerts at the manicured Nehru Park. A certain municipal commissioner had his cultural constraints. Any vocalist, man or ...

JODHPUR: Qawwali singers Rizwan and Muazzam Ali Khan aka Rizwan-Muazzam — nephews of legendary Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan — were born to create devotional Sufi music. However, they feel when qawwalis are ...

New Delhi, June 22: Iconic Qawwali singer Amjad Sabri was shot to death in Pakistan on Wednesday. The Sufi music icon, was one-half of the legendary band Sabri Brothers, which mesmerized the entire ...

New Delhi: The showbiz industry was stuck by a major shock after renowned Pakistani qawwal Amjad Sabri was shot dead in Karachi today. The singer was attacked by unknown gunmen, who opened fire at ...

Jodhpur: They may be tagged as qawwalis, a popular form of Sufi devotional music, in Hindi films but Pakistani singers Rizwan and Muazzam, nephews of legendary Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, say the filmi ...

Sufi songs and popular qawwalis had a soothing effect on the audience at Deshpande hall on Thursday. Sufi songs and popular qawwalis had a soothing effect on the audience at Deshpande hall on Thursday ...

NOIDA: A 10-day art, crafts and trade fair, Shilpotsav-2016, will be held at Noida Stadium in Sector 21A from October 18 to 27. The event, organised by UP Tourism in association with Noida Authority ...

The above hadith — a saying of the Prophet Mohammad — is written by the great Sufi poet Amir Khusro. And when you hear such profound lyrics as a qawwali sung by the well-known Niazi Nizami brothers, ...

The qawwali, a musical genre closely associated with Islamic Sufi tradition, has evolved over the generations to include not just devotion, but romance, comedy and even social commentary in its fold.

MUMBAI: Actor Ali Fazal has been educating himself about the well-known ghazals of his hometown Lucknow. Incidentally, it was Ali's uncle Rizwan Saeed, who introduced him to the maestro of qawwali, ...