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Raza Khan
The Sufi methodology of reclamation of the soul from the worldly and its upliftment through music and poetry to reach out to the eternal, godly element finds an unparalleled exponent in Raza Khan- a Sufi singer, musician and composer from the town of Amritsar, India. True to the Sufi tradition he sings the [...]
Vela Dhana Bheel
Vela Dhana Bheel sings Bhajans- hindu devotional songs set to the music of Santaar, Manjira and Ghada Ghamela. The Bheels are a tribal community indigenous to many parts of India. Traditionally they were hunters and gatherers and lived a semi-nomadic lifestyle but in the present take up daily wage labor or work as farm hands. [...]
Sukariya Nar Fafal
Sukariya Nar Fafal and accompanying artists are a part of a semi formal music group called a Bhajan Mandali who sing Hindu devotional songs and Kafi (verses of philosophical poetry) with instruments like Ghadho-Ghamelo, Santaar, Manjira, Jhanjh, and Khartal. They are the Meghwal performers who are decedents of Meghmaru, a Hindu community living in the [...]
Puran Singh
Puran Singh Arshi is a lead performer of a Sikh Dhadhi Jatha- a group of musicians who sing a particular style of Sikh devotional music that began in the courts of Guru Hargobind. It is one of the three main music styles that were developed by the Sikh gurus and is an amalgamation of both [...]
Prabhu Dayal
The Shekhawati belt of Rajasthan boasts of a style of music so intimate and simple in character that to call it a performance would almost be to misunderstand it! A paradigm of community singing, dancing and bonding, Dhamaal -loosely translating to a group having a good time- is a music best described as a collective, [...]
Noor Mohammad
Noor Mohammad, a musician who plays the Jodia Pawa or a paired flute, performs folk tunes and Sufi devotional melodies. The rendition is more festive than seriously philosophical. Noor, a Soda Muslim from the Rann of Kutch is one of the most accomplished woodwind instrumentalists in the region. Traditionally played by the Maldhari or the [...]
Narata Ram
India has a tradition of wandering ascetics who are continuously on the move and practice and preach a spiritual way of life through narrations, songs and poetry. Ninety year old Narata Ram is a Jogi Faqir who has been performing for the last sixty three years and is still going strong. The term ‘Jogi’ refers [...]
Mustafa Ali Jat
Bheth is a sub-genre of Sufi music in which short verses of profound poetry are sung autonomously or fused together with a Kafi or a Waai. Mustafa Ali Jat, a vocalist belonging to Kutch has inherited this beautiful art form from his ancestors, the Jat muslims who brought it from Iran via Sindh province in [...]
Murra Lala Fafal
Murra Lala Fafal is a Kafi singer belonging to the Marwada Meghwals, a Hindu community living in the Rann of kutch in Gujarat. The Kafi sung by Meghwals is sufi music and has a strong influence of Bhajans- another genre of devotional and philosophical music in India. Kafis are commonly sung at Hindu festivals in [...]
Multan Khan
Facing an audience as they sit in a slight arc dressed in traditional desert attire with the famed dunes of the Thar as the mesmerizing backdrop and presenting a composition that keeps alive a music tradition going back 820 years, the Manganiyars from Barmer add unparalleled color and zest to any celebration. Singing of romance [...]
