Technically, only men can perform qawwali songs, with female performers singing sufiana kalam ... The lyrics draw on Hindustani — the common point of Hindi and Urdu — Persian, Arabic, and numerous ...

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan is widely credited for bringing global attention to Qawwali music, extending the 600yr old Qawwali tradition ... so Qawwali songs are rarely short - there are no radio ...

"I am going to wow you with the purest form of Qawwali. No Bollywood songs, or any other popular songs. It's going to be just a night of pure unplugged, blissful, soulful Qawwalis," the legend ...

“I have planned quite a lot of songs for the session actually. Just like the materials on exhibition, my idea is also to sort of weave together various types of South Asian music including ...