Sachal Sarmast
Sachal Sarmast (1739 – 1829) was a renowned Sindhi Sufi poet during the Kalhora era. Abdul Wahab was his real name and “Sachal” was the name he used in his own poetry. Sachu means truth in Sindhi and Sachalu means truthful. Sarmast means mystic in Sindhi and Urdu. Suchal Sarmast literally means ‘truthful mystic’. Sachal [...]
Mian Muhammad Bakhsh
Mian Muhammad Bakhsh was a Sufi saint and also a Potohari/Hindko poet of great repute. He is especially renowned as the writer of a book of poetry called Saiful Malūk. He was born in a village called khanqa peir-E-shah Gazi Khari Sharif, situated in the Mirpur District of Azad Jammu & Kashmir).
Life
He belonged to the [...]
Nazia Hassan(Pakistan’s Queen of Disco Pop)
In 1980, Nazia Hassan, a fifteen-years old Pakistani girl residing in the United Kingdom were approached by Indian actor and director Feroz Khan along with Biddu Appaiah, an Indian music producer who asked her to sing the song Aap Jaisa Koi for the film Qurbani.She was selected for the nasal quality of the song’s delivery. [...]
Rez Abbasi
Born in South Asia, removed at the age of four to Southern California, schooled at the University of Southern California and the prestigious Manhattan School of Music, and once a pilgrim to India studying under master percussionist Ustad Alla Rakha, Rez Abbasi makes music that’s a vivid synthesis of his life’s expriences.
Making New York home [...]
Khwaja Ghulam Fareed Sahib
Khwaja Ghulam Fareed Sahib (خواجہ فرید)Khawaja Farid (1845-1901) was a Seraiki poet, mystic and Sajjada nashin (Patron saint) of the Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent. He was born and died at Chacharan Shrif but buried at Kot Mithan.
He was the son of Khwaja Khuda Bakhsh. His mother died when he was five years old [...]
Noor Jehan
Noor Jehan (b. September 21, 1926 – December 23, 2000) was a famous Punjabi and Urdu singer and actress. She is revered in Pakistan by her title Mallika-e-Tarranum (Queen of Melody) and is considered to be one of the greatest singers to have come from the Indian subcontinent. Noor Jehan has [...]
Hazrat Baba Fariduddin Masood Ganjshakar
Hazrat Baba Fariduddin Masood Ganjshakar commonly known as Baba Farid was a 12-th century Sufi preacher and saint of Punjab. He is recognised as the first acclaimed poet of Punjabi language. He was the spiritual disciple and Khalifa (spiritual successor) of Qutbuddin Bakhtiar Kaki who was the disciple and Khalifa of Khawaja Moinuddin Chishti who [...]
Sultan Bahu (Alif Allah Chambe Di Booti)
Sultan Bahu (ca 1628 – 1691) was a Muslim Sufi and saint, who founded the Sarwari Qadiri sufi order.
Like many other sufi saints of the Indian subcontinent, Sultan Bahu was also a prolific writer, with more than forty books on Sufism attributed to him. However, as the majority of his books deal with specialised subjects [...]
Sain Zahoor سائیں ظہور
Sain Zahoor or Saeen Zahur Ahmad (سائیں ظہور) (b. around 1945) is a leading Sufi musician from Pakistan. He spent his life singing in the Sufi shrines, and had not cut a record until 2006, when he was nominated for the BBC World Music awards based on word of mouth. He emerged as the “best [...]
Music of Hunza
Music is called the food of soul and the people of NAs adopted it as a part of their culture from the rise of their fore fathers on this land. The instruments commonly used in NAs are, Dadang (drum) Damal (Tabla) Surnai (shehnai) while some other instruments like Sitar, Gabi(flut) Rabab and [...]
