The South Asian art form known as Sufi music has a centuries old tradition built on poetry and mysticism coupled with specific instruments, meters and repetition. Brooklyn-based Pakistani musician ...
Reporting from Islamabad, PakistanReporting from Islamabad, Pakistan — When Amjad Sabri, one of Pakistan’s best known performers of Sufi devotional music, was gunned down in Karachi, the country’s ...
NEW YORK, April 5, 2017 — Pakistani singer Sanam Marvi offers insights into her music, vocal techniques, and philosophy in this lecture-demonstration, which includes Marvi performing several songs.
The echoes of Pakistani folk and Sufi music filled the Theatre de la Ville in Paris on Sunday night as celebrated singer Sanam Marvi left a packed audience spellbound with her soulful performance. The ...
The NY Sufi Music Festival sought to combat perceptions of Islamic Radicalism by representing and celebrating Sufi values of peace, tolerance, and respect through music. The New York Sufi Music ...
For Umer Piracha, sufi music was a constant soundtrack as he grew up. He was born and raised in Multan, a city in the Punjab province of Pakistan that’s also home to a rich history of Sufism, a mystic ...
Many musicians have declared that Rock & Roll will save the world. Few, it seems, have as much resting on that gamble as Pakistani rocker Salman Ahmad, founder of South Asia’s hottest rock band, ...
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Motorcycle-borne gunmen on Wednesday shot dead an acclaimed Pakistani singer in the busy port city of Karachi, police said, two days after masked men kidnapped the son of a top ...
It's been about a month since Amjad Sabri's voice was silenced. He was shot dead in his home city of Karachi by two men on a motorcycle, and his millions of fans are still in shock and anger. So are ...