![]() I don’t know why I was a fan no one else around me was. I was a qawalli fan while I was still in school long before there was a Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and long before it was kool to be a qawalli fan. I left wondering what has happening to qawalli in Pakistan today? Who are the big names out there? Are there any? Is there any Ghulam Farid Sabri, Aziz Mian, Nusrat Fateh Ali equivalent out there? I know of Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, but he seems to be mostly re-rendering Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan’s work. I guess she left wondering what the beat and sound was about. I am not sure if she heard what I said over the noise because the light turned green just then and we went our different ways. She shouted over the music to ask me what type of music this was and from where. ![]() As I stopped at a red light, my head still nodding to the rhythms, I noticed that the American woman in the car parked next to me was staring at me with a rather perplexed look (Bostonians don’t often get to hear the Sabri bradraan!). ![]() It is being reposted with the addition of some new Qawali video clips.Īs I was driving back from work tonight, I had an old Sabri Brothers cassette playing in my car. This post was originally posted on October 19, 2006. ![]()
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