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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Asad Amanat Ali Khan
Asad Amanat Ali Khan(September 25, 1952- April 8, 2007) was a very popular classical, semi-classical and ghazal singer from Pakistan. Hailing from famous Patiala Gharana, Asad was son of famous musician Amanat Ali Khan. Asad Amanat Ali Khan died relatively young of heart attack on April 8, 2007 in London. His great-grandfather, Ali Baksh Khan, [...]
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 [...]
Sindh Music
Sindh has been phenomenally rich in music. Music constitutes a very integral part of Sindh’s cultural heritage. Sindhi music continues to retain its original form and shape despite the innovation and influence of the Arabic, Persian and Indian music. Folk music forms the larger bulk of Sindhi music. Sindhi folk music is typical of the [...]
Pakistan Music
The Music of Pakistan includes diverse elements ranging from music from other parts of South Asia as well as Central Asian folk music, Persian music, Turkish music, Arabic music as well as more modern American music influences. With the multiple influences, Pakistani music has emerged as a “fusion” of many other types of sounds together [...]
