Pakistan joined the 18th 'World Samaa International Festival for Chanting and Spiritual Music' in Egypt on Thursday as an honorary guest, marking a significant cultural presence at an event regarded ...

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 ...

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 ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Pakistan's award-winning Hamza Akram Qawwal & Brothers, grandsons of the revered ...

Peter Gabriel’s Real World Records is set to release “Chain of Light,” a previously unheard album by Pakistani qawwali legend Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. The recordings, discovered in the label’s archives ...

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 ...

Asif Ali Khan was only 13 in the mid-’80s when he began studying with the legendary Pakistani qawwali master Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (d. 1997), eventually becoming his premier student. Tonight, Asif ...

MEE speaks to Asif Hasnain, co-founder of The Dream Journey music project, on how debates over Islam and culture have shaped Pakistan's music scene (From left, foreground) Asif Hasnain and other ...