Riffat Sultana channels the musical wisdom of 500 years and eleven generations of master musicians in her family in India and Pakistan. But in all…
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Artist Profiles: Rizwan-Muazzam Qawwali
Pakistan’s fresh young ensemble, Rizwan-Muazzam Qawwali, though still in their teens, are already proving to be masters of the Sufis’ devotional music. The two young…
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Ustad Salamat Ali Khan was born in 1934 in the Hoshiarpur district of Punjab in what was then the British colony of India. He is…
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As heir to a singing dynasty, Shafqat Ali Khan is one of the master classical vocalists of India and Pakistan. Shafqat Ali Khan was born…
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Sukhawat Ali Khan is the son of the legendary Indian-Pakistani Vocalist Ustad Salamat Ali Khan. Sukhawat belongs to the school called Sham Chorasi which was…
View More Artist Profiles: Sukhawat Ali KhanArtist Profiles: Tone Hulbækmo
Tone Hulbækmo (born 1957), from Tolga in Østerdalen, is a vocalist with broad repertoire, ranging European medieval and renaissance music to Norwegian folk modern songs.…
View More Artist Profiles: Tone HulbækmoArtist Profiles: Kirsten Bråten Berg
Kirsten Bråten Berg (born 1950) has her own silversmith workshop, but is known primarily for unique, richly resonant kveding. She has lived in Setesdal since…
View More Artist Profiles: Kirsten Bråten BergArtist Profiles: Youssef Hbeisch
Youssef Hbeisch is an Arab percussionist of Palestinian origin, who developed contemporary ways of playing and combining complex Arabic rhythms. Born in 1967 in Galilee,…
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Babatunde Olatunji was one of the 20th century’s greatest masters of percussion. A beloved cross-cultural ambassadors, he made an unparalleled contribution in the saga of…
View More Artist Profiles: Babatunde OlatunjiArtist Profiles: Bola Abimbola
Bola Abimbola was born in 1966 and raised in Lagos, Nigeria, the large African metropolis that gave us celebrated African musical pioneers Fela Kuti and…
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