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Article: Obituary: Ghulam Farid Sabri
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- May 19, 1994
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Ghulam Farid Sabri, singer: born 1930; married (five sons, six
daughters); died Karachi 5 April 1994.
GHULAM FARID SABRI was one of the most versatile Qawwali singers
of modern times and, as one of the Sabri Brothers, the first to
bring this devotional music, invented by medieval Sufi poets and
mystics, to audiences in the West. With his younger brother,
Maqbool, he composed and performed several Indian and Pakistani
film scores in the Qawwali style, had recorded hits and began the
poetic embassies from the subcontinent to the expatriate Indo-
Pakistani populations of the United States and Britain.
He was born in 1930 in the Central Provinces of the Raj and was
brought up in Gwalior. The ...