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, ...

As a school student fascinated by the world of video games, I would visit the market with friends to buy pirated copies of ...

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 ...

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 ...

The sounds of world music reverbereated through the crowded pews of Unitarian Universalist Church in Savannah Tuesday as Asif Ali Khan and his nine-member ensemble enchanted audiences with South Asian ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Celebrate the rich heritage of Punjabi Sufi music, with an equally rich performance by Riyaaz Qawwali! Weaving together centuries-old folk songs with contemporary works from artists like Gurdaas Mann, ...

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 ...

The actor and rapper, who is shooting the sci-fi thriller “Invasion” with Octavia Spencer, talked about the things that he turned to “at different moments to recalibrate or go back to the well,” he ...

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 ...