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Sufi music refers to the devotional music of the Sufis, inspired by the works of Sufi poets like Rumi, Hafiz, Bulleh Shah, Amir Khusrow, and Khwaja Ghulam Farid. Qawwali is the best-known form of Sufi music and is most commonly found in the Sufi culture in South Asia.
(Top) 1 Ghazal. 2 Kafi. 3 Qawwali. 4 Sufi Rock. 5 Other genres of Sufi music. 6 Notes and references. Toggle the table of contents. List of Sufi singers. 3 languages.
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan & Party primarily performed qawwali, a form of Sufi music from the Indian subcontinent.Their music was rooted in the traditions of Indian classical music, with emphasis on call-and-response vocals, tabla rhythms, and Indian harmonium melodies. [8]
The songs which constitute the qawwali repertoire are primarily in Persian, Urdu, and Hindi, [13] [14] although Sufi poetry appears in local languages as well (including Punjabi, Saraiki, and dialects of northern India like Braj Bhasha and Awadhi.) [15] [16] The sound of regional language qawwali can be totally different from that of mainstream ...
M. Jayachandran had an exposure to Sufi music, having listened to the qawwali and ghazals of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Sabri brothers, Aziz Mian, Begum Akhtar and Ghulam Ali in his childhood, and wanted to do a film which had scope for Sufi music, as it had its Arabic and Middle Eastern-influences.
Fanna-Fi-Allah Sufi Qawwali Party Mehfil-e-Sama Vol. 2 (2012) Damahama Dam Ali Ali (2011) Mehfil-e-Sama Vol. 1 (2008) Baba Farid (2007) Annihilation Into the Infinite (2005) Rizwan Muazzam Amad (2014) Araj Sun Li Jo Mori (2014) Sufi Sama (2007) Rizwan Muazzam Qawwali Karlo Ganj-e-Shakar (2011) Sher Ali Mehr Ali Hamare Khwaja (2013) Tahir Qawwal
These songs had been published in nine volumes titled Ashekmala, Shantibhandar, Muktir Darbar, Nure Duniya, Jibansathi, Satyadarpan, Bhandare Maula, Manab Bandhu and Eshke Sirajia. [11] Abdul Gafur Hali , who died in 2016, was a late 20th-century musician of the genre who similarly wrote hundreds of songs and was known for his "extraordinary ...
Abida Parveen (born 1954) is a Pakistani singer who excels in Sufi music, folk singing and ghazal. Starting her journey from Radio Pakistan in 1973, she today is a towering figure in the world of Sufi music. Parveen has launched more than 100 albums. She performs worldwide and prefers spreading the Sufi word by her vocals abroad.