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Aziz Mian Qawwal (Urdu: عزیز میاں قوال) (17 April 1942 – 6 December 2000) was a Pakistani traditional qawwal famous for singing ghazals in his own style of qawwali and is considered one of the greatest qawwals in South Asia.
Following are the most popular Pakistani Qawwali singers of all times. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
The qawwali maestro Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan has at least two songs that are more than 60 minutes long. Qawwalis tend to begin gently and build steadily to a very high energy level in order to induce hypnotic states both among the musicians and within the audience. Almost all Qawwalis are based on a Raga from the Hindustani classical music ...
Rais Anis Sabri started learning the intricacies of Sufi Qawwali from the age of four and gave his first performance at seven. He sings mainly in the Chisti Rang, of the Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti of Ajmer, India, following the tradition of Sufi saint Nizamuddin and Amir Khusro, the 13th century Sufi poet. At the age of 12, he gave a performance ...
Dama Dam Mast Qalandar (transl. Every Breath for the Ecstasy of Qalandar) [1] is a spiritual Sufi qawwali written in the honour of the most revered Sufi saint of Sindh, Lal Shahbaz Qalandar (1177–1274) of Sehwan Sharif.
Abdullah Niazi carries the qawwali performance with a command and virtuosity rarely found in contemporary Qawwals [4] capturing Amir Khusrow's poetry and its musical emotionality in all its subtlety and intensity. Abdullah Niazi Qawwal performs various genres of qawwali music such as Thumri, Khayal, Tarana, Sufism, and Classical.
Bahauddin Khan is descended from a family of musicians which traces its lineage back to the days of Amir Khusrow (the father of Qawwali) of the 13th century India. [2] To propagate Islam throughout South Asia, Amir Khusrow banded together twelve youngsters (12 Kids Band), and personally trained them in singing and performing Qawwali, a genre of devotional Sufi music. [2]
Ghulam Farid Sabri (1930–5 April1994) was a qawwali singer and member of the Sabri Brothers, a qawwali group in Pakistan in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. The Sabri Brothers received the Pride of Performance award by the President of Pakistan in 1978. [1] Sabri was also a Sufi mystic connected to the Chishti Order.