A native of the sind province of Pakistan Abida Parveen is a rare female performer of Sufi music. Blessed with a versatile voice and an inheritor of the tradition of Shah Lateef and other Sindhi Sufis She has over the years expanded her repertoire to include Punjabi, Urdu and Hindi Sufi Poetry. This has made her magic accessible to millions across the subcontinent and in the west too.
Sufi music is undoubtedly the most evolved illumined and enchanting outcome of the interface between Hinduism and Islam in the Subcontinent. Sufism goes back to medieval Persia where mystical thinkers offered an alternative path to the puritanical ways of the Islamic clergy. Like Hindy Bhakti it addresses the Universal and omnipotent God through a highly personalized relationship of the lover and the beloved. Turkish Persian and Arabic influences mingled with local vernacular traditions to produce some of the most magical and moving musical forms like Qual, Kafi and Qawwali. Here god becomes the mehboob of the Sufi and the Latter’s act of love and surrender is expressed through music and dance both forbidden by the orthodoxy. The qawwali also incorporates classical and folk musical influence borrowing from forms like tarana Khayal, thumri and dadra.
Accompanying artistes
Karram Hussain, Dholak, Nasire Hussain, tabla Mansoor Hussain, Harmonium
Gulam Sabir, Sarangi, Mukesh Sharma, Sarod, Mukesh Jolly Rabab, Ravi and Rakesh tabla, Arash Zangnesh Semmani, Daff
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