Urban Qawwali

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:

References
  1. http://www.pakistanimusic.com/artistes/nfak.html
  2. http://www.play.com/Music/CD/4-/673097/Magic-Touch/Product.html
  3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZVXrgA1KeE
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