Nayyara Noor
Nayyara Noor is a Pakistani singer considered one of the South Asia’s foremost exponents in the Ghazal genre.
Biography
Nayyara Noor was born in 1950 in Assam. Her family was a merchant class hailing from Amritsar who had settled in Guwahati in Assam State in the North-Eastern India. Her father was an active member of the [...]
Music Families
Music Families
Since early eighteenth century, a significant development in classical gayeki took the form of evolution of gharanas or extended music families, [...]
Tahira Syed
Tahira Syed is a Ghazal and folk singer in Pakistan. She is the daughter of vocalist Begum Malika Pukhraj, and was the former wife of Naeem Bokhari.
Music career
Syed received her initial training in music from Ustad Akhtar Hussain. She first appeared on air in 1968–69 on Radio Pakistan, and her popularity increased [...]
Ustad Amanat Ali Khan
Ustad Amanat Ali Khan (1932–1974) was a Pakistani classical/ghazal singer, from the Patiala gharana. He was honoured with the ‘Pride of Performance’ award by the government of Pakistan. He stands with great singing icons like Mehdi Hassan and Ahmed Rushdi.
Early life and background
Amanat Ali Khan was born in Sham Chaurasi, Hoshiarpur, [...]
Pathanay Khan
Pathanay Khan (real name: Ghulam Muhammad; 1926 – 2000) was a great folk singer from Pakistan. His singing style was mostly Kafi or Ghazal, and were largely based on the Sufi poetry of Khwaja Ghulam Farid and Shah Hussain. He was born in 1926 in the village Basti Tambu Wali, situated [...]
International Mystic Music Sufi Festival in Karachi
I had heard of Doctors without Borders and Reporters without Borders, but when I saw a headline in a Pakistani newspaper about Mystics without Borders, it was a first for me and certainly caught my attention.
It turns out a fascinating festival by the name of the “International Mystic Music Sufi Festival” is [...]
Classical Music
Classical Music is a North Indian classical music tradition that has been evolving from the 12th centuries AD onwards, in what is now northern India and Pakistan, and also Bangladesh, Nepal and Afghanistan. The tradition was born out of a cultural synthesis from several musical streams: the vedic chant tradition dating [...]
