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 ...

This year’s World Music Arts and Dance (Womad) festival held in the United Kingdom flaunted an exquisite assortment of global music legends, ranging from Ziggy Marley to Salif Keita to Robert Plant.

The veteran band, which is led by award-winning musician Qawwal Ghulam Fareeddin Ayaz al-Hussaini, is in Iran to take part in the celebrations of Pakistan’s Independence Day, which occurs on August 14 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Musicians play qawwali -- the devotional music of Islam's Sufi mystical sect -- in Karachi Nearly two years after Pakistan's ...

NEW YORK, May 8, 2016 — The classically-trained Saami Brothers Qawwal perform traditional qawwali music following the two-day Lahore Literary Festival at Asia Society in New York. (2 hr., 7 min.) ...

Between 1947 and the early 1950s, much of the music played on the state-owned Radio Pakistan comprised Urdu film songs, some Western popular and Eastern classical music, ghazals and patriotic ditties.

Pakistan is a country with a rich and diverse musical culture, with a wide range of musical styles and genres that have developed over the years. From the traditional folk music of rural areas to the ...

The Pakistani qawwali icon sang words written centuries ago and died decades ago. He’s got a new album out. In June 2021, in ...

Fears of sectarianism and modern pressures slowly drown out its powerfully hypnotic strains Karachi: Nearly two years after Pakistan’s foremost qawwali singer Amjad Sabri was gunned down in Karachi, ...