Urban Qawwali

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Urban Qawwali (Urban Quwali)(Urban Quwalli) is a genre of music that fuses Sufi devotional music popular from South Asia mixed with Urban beats from the west.

Urban Qawwali's first emerged in the 1990s with DJs mixing Hip-Hop beats with Vocals from Qawwals and popular Sufi singers like Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan^[1] & Sabri Brothers

One of the first DJs/Producers to mix both genres of music was Bally Sagoo who had a close connection with the great Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and released the album Majic Touch^[2] in 1993

Since 1993 many DJs/Producers/Bands have experimented with the style such as:

• Punjabi MC
• ^[3]
• Jinx
• Pearl Jam
• Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy
• A R Rahman

References[]

External links[]

• OSA Records
• www.UrbanQuwali.com