Rizwan Muazzam
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PROFILE OF RIZWAN MUAZZAM
QAWWALI GROUP
GROUP NAME:
RIZWAN MUAZZAM ALI KHAN QAWWALI GROUP
FAMILY BELONGS
Rizwan Muazzam is belong to Ustad Nusrat Fateh ali Khan (Late)Rizwan Muazzam father is first cousin of Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan And son of Mubarak Ali Khan.
Rizwan-Muazzam Qawwali is made up of two lead singers (Rizwan
and Muazzam), five secondary singers leading the choral response
and vigorous hand claps two harmonium players and a tabla player.
They perform in traditional Qawwali style - sitting on the ground
rather than on seats - which
they believe brings them closer to God Last year, the intensity of
their songs and stage performance led one commentator, only half-jokingly, to call them "the Qawwali Clash."
The original Qawwali repertoire of Farsi (Persian), Punjabi, and Braj
Blia sha (an old form of Hindi) has given way in recent times to Urdu and
Arabic. Romantic love is used as a metaphor for spiritual adoration
and mystical enlightenment, drawing upon a rich vein of poetic imagery. It is not surprising; therefore, that Qawwali has become a
staple of Bollywood film scores.
These nephews of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, then, come from a direct family line of Qawwali vocal music that spans over five centuries.
Their inventive reinterpretetions oi spiritual love songs based upon classical Islamic and Sufi texts was first showcased in the UK in July 1998, at the WOMAD Festival in Reading, to much critical acclaim,
and has since journeyed to the far corners oi the globe.
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