Amjad Sabri's Final Encore
From the Blog sonyarehman *By Sonya Rehman * Last month, the popular Pakistani music series, Coke Studio, broadcast one of its long-awaited tracks for the new season, 'Rang,' a duet between Rahat Fateh Ali Khan and the late, Amjad Sabri. A touching rendition of a devotional song by Ameer Khusro, the famed Sufi poet and scholar; what made the Khan-Sabri collaboration so special was the fact that Khan's uncle, the great Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, and Sabri's father, another Qawwal powerhouse, Ghulam Farid Sabri, sung the same song at a shrine in Karachi over four decades ago. But perhaps more than the fact that two of the country's greatest musicians were sharing the stage for the first time, it was the anticipation of seeing Sabri—the highly-acclaimed and adored Qawwali singer—deliver one of his last perfopakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full Post
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