Pakistani qawwali maestro Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, known for giving hit Bollywood numbers like Jiya dhadak dhadak and Sajda, is happy that record label Universal Music India came forward to support his ...
The database started out with 250 songs in 2021 with funding support from the India Foundation for the Arts in Bangalore, and now the number has swelled to 800 and counting. It includes music from ...
REUTERS - Singer Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, known for both Bollywood hits and Qawwali, Sufi devotional music that dates back more than 700 years, is taking the two genres to Britain in August for three ...
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.
It is 8 pm on a chilly Thursday night, and the winter wind is howling outside. Yet there is hardly any space for latecomers on the cold marble floors inside the Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya Dargah, where ...