Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan is widely credited for bringing global attention to Qawwali music, extending the 600yr old Qawwali tradition of his family. By the time of his death following a heart attack, ...

This playlist features Pakistani and Indian world music artists I deeply admire. They bent the rules and took chances, creating something new and sublime along the way. The most famous female qawwal, ...

At the time of his 1997 passing, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan was widely recognized as a transcendent and eternal-sounding vocalist, and as the world's premier Qawwal, a singer of traditional Qawwali ...

around 1982 on a WOMAD (World of Music and Dance) album. WOMAD was Peter Gabriel’s world music label and brainchild. This was right about the time when a bunch of Brit record executives coined the ...

The Houston group discusses bringing ancient Muslim traditions into the contemporary world — and even collaborating on music for a Disney show. Music has long been part of religious practices around ...

Riyaaz Qawwali has been performing the gripping musical style of qawwali for over 16 years. The musicians, all settled in Houston, have roots from India, Pakistan, Nepal, and Bangladesh with various ...

Each week global citizen Nari Safavi helps listeners plan their international weekend. This week he’s getting spiritual. He’s joined by musician Zeshan Bagewadi and a group of Qawwali musicians who ...

Nearly two years after Pakistan’s foremost qawwali singer Amjad Sabri was gunned down in Karachi, the devotional music of Islam’s Sufi mystical sect is struggling to survive, as fears of sectarianism ...

Junun, the frustrating new documentary by Paul Thomas Anderson, was filmed in the private chambers of a fifteenth-century fort overlooking Jodhpur, a city in northern India. The film opens with a long ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Wednesday evening marks the beginning of Eid al-Fitr in the United States, the celebration to mark the end of Ramadan. Millions celebrate Ramadan in Houston and around the ...

Fresh off his Bollywood playback debut in the Akshay Kumar-starrer Sarfira, singer Sagar Bhatia returned to Hyderabad for his third performance in the city. The evening was full of energy as the ...

In this concert, masterworks by modern female poets Parveen Shakir and Amrita Pritam will be sung in the radiant tradition of qawwali music for the first time. The nationally celebrated (and ...