KARACHI: The 26th generation of the Qawwal Bachon Ka Gharana of Delhi, Hamza Akram and Brothers, performed at T2F for an intimate gathering comprising the Ahl-i-Zauq on Sunday. The potency of this ...

Renowned Pakistani sufi-singers Fareed Ayaz and Abu Muhammad, who hail from the legendary Qawwal Bachon ka Gharana of Delhi, were in the capital recently for the announcement of the first ...

London-based qawwali aficionado, banker-turned-producer Kamran Anwar, took it upon himself to preserve what he feared would have become a lost story. A year-long sabbatical to channel his passion for ...

KARACHI: Renowned writer on arts, culture and history and critic of the art, Ally Adnan said that Qawwali was more than three thousand years old, but this unique type of Hindustani music was still ...

Qawwals Farid Ayaz and Abu Mohammad are keepers of tradition. As Abu Mohammad in his robust voice croons into the phone some rare bandishes, one gets a sense of it. In Pakistan, where qawwali has not ...

Ateeq Hussain Khan Bandanawazi believes in upholding the deep-rooted tradition of Bandanawazi Qawwal. Says Ateeq, “I am the seventh generation from the lineage of Ustad Haddu Hassu Khan belonging to ...

Rampur Gharana can boast of those amazing techniques which are only known to those belonging to the Qawwali tradition — the paltas, the tans, the phirats and zamzamas. They were imbibed by Inayat ...

CHENNAI: The stage had the entire qawwali party preparing for the performance in front of an enthused audience, including the Nawabzada of Arcot among them and other known faces from the city. While ...

Ustad Ateeq Hussain Khan Bandanawazi performed Sufiana Qawwali at the ongoing 19th National Urdu Book Fair at Quli Qutb Shah Stadium in Hyderabad. Says Hussain, “I started learning music from my ...

On a stage, where content and form are often destined for collision, Ustad Zakir Hussain was an exception. The flailing head ...