Jahan-e-Khusrau
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Jahan-e-Khusrau is an annual three-day sufi music festival held in New Delhi
, India
to commemorate the death anniversary of the saint Hazrat Amir Khusrau.
music tradition in the 13th century AD.
New Delhi
New Delhi is the capital city of India. It serves as the centre of the Government of India and the Government of the National Capital Territory of Delhi. New Delhi is situated within the metropolis of Delhi. It is one of the nine districts of Delhi Union Territory. The total area of the city is...
, India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
to commemorate the death anniversary of the saint Hazrat Amir Khusrau.
The festival
The festival is held at Chaunsath Khamba located in Hazrat Nizamuddin Basti and the lawns of the Humayun’s Tomb — incidentally, this is where Khusrau started the qawwaliQawwali
Qawwali is a form of Sufi devotional music popular in South Asia, particularly in the Punjab and Sindh regions of Pakistan, Hyderabad, Delhi, and other parts of northern India...
music tradition in the 13th century AD.
2010
- Khanqahi Qawwals (Pakistan and India)
- Farid Ayaz, Abu Muhammad, Karachi
- Abida ParveenAbida ParveenAbida Parveen , is a Pakistani singer of Sindhi descent and one of the foremost exponents of Sufi music . She sings mainly ghazals, Urdu love songs, and her forte, Kafis, a solo genre accompanied by percussion and harmonium, using a repertoire of songs by Sufi poets...
- Sanam MarviSanam MarviSanam Marvi is a Pakistani folk and sufi singer. She sings in Urdu, Sindhi and Seraiki languages.- Early life :Sanam Marvi was born in Hyderabad, Sindh, Pakistan in a Sindhi family. Her father's name is Faqeer Ghulam Rasool, a sufi singer. She had eight siblings...
2007
- Nizami BrothersNizami BrothersNizami brothers is an Indian Qawwali musical group. They perform at all the major sufi and folk music festivals.-Legacy:The Nizami brothers belong to a family privileged to have been the descendants of court singers of Hazrat Nizamuddin Aulia for several centuries....
- Abida Parveen
- Wendy Jehlen
- Meeta Pandit
- Rekha Bhardwaj
- Adil Hussiani and Group,
- Sanskriti School (Religion of Love): lyrics, vocals and dramatized recitation by Vaibhav Kaul Mahfouz
- Sussan Deyhim from USA accompanied by Perdram Derakshani, Ali Rahimi and Seyed Mohammad Hanjani