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Sami Yusuf was born on 21 July 1980 in Tehran to Azerbaijani parents. [15] [16] His grandparents are from Baku, Azerbaijan, from which they left for Iran when it was captured by the Bolsheviks following World War I. Yusuf and his parents later arrived in Ealing, West London, in the early 1980s, after the Islamic Revolution in Iran. [17]
Barakah is a 2016 studio album by British singer-songwriter Sami Yusuf. It was released on 1 February 2016 on Andante Records. It was released on 1 February 2016 on Andante Records. It is also marketed as the first of a series of recordings as Spiritique Collection (Vol. 1) .
My Ummah is the second studio album by British singer Sami Yusuf.It was released in two versions, a "music version" and a "percussion version". It is claimed to have sold between five [1] and eight [2] million copies worldwide.
In 2016, British-Azeri singer Sami Yusuf performed a rendition of Khan's song in his album Barakah. The Bollywood music director Viju Shah used Khan's version to produce the hit song "Tu Cheez Badi Hai Mast Mast" sung by Kavita Krishnamurthy and Udit Narayan for the Bollywood film Mohra (1994), [ 9 ] the soundtrack album of which sold more than ...
Salaam is the fourth official studio album by Sami Yusuf, that was released on December 22, 2012.The physical version was released on December 22, while the digital version was released on December 24.
Sami Yusuf claimed that this album was released without his prior "blessings nor consent". He stated: "I therefore wish to make it perfectly clear that an album comprised of any such recordings could only be put on to the market against my wishes and without my approval."
Sami Yusuf's album Barakah (2016) has a track called "I Only Knew Love ('Araftul Hawa)" is also based on a similar tune. The third movement of Fazil Say's violin concerto "1001 Nights in the Harem" [ 28 ] heavily quotes the tune.
For example, the "Allah Hoo" that appears on the Sabri Brothers 1978 album Qawwali: Sufi Music from Pakistan is totally different from the song that became one of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan's signature qawwalis, and this in turn is totally different from Qawwal Bahauddin's version on the 1991 Shalimar compilation video titled "Tajdar-e-Haram, vol. 2 ...