The singers in Pakistani ensemble the Saami Brothers like to take their time onstage—each vocal step moves the performance upward gradually toward a collective sense of ecstasy. That deliberate pacing ...

Canadian singer Justin Bieber's global hit Baby was performed with an unexpected twist during a Qawwali Night at a university event in Pakistan's Lahore. A video of the Qawwali group singing Baby in ...

Born in Nova Scotia in Canada, Tahir Husain Faridi Qawwal left as a teenager on a spiritual search that took him to Pakistan and India. In last twenty years his team has performed across in east and ...

A daily chronicle of creativity in film, TV, music, arts, and entertainment, produced by Southern California Public Radio and broadcast from November 2014 – March 2020. Host John Horn leads the ...

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, the best-known qawwali singer of all time, died in 1997, two days after the 50th anniversary of Pakistan’s independence. After a career that spanned more than three decades, he ...