I also like Western classical music and jazz.

Nusrat is one of the greatest singers of our time. When his singing takes off, his voice embodies soulfulness and sprituality like no other.

He's my elvis. I idolize Nusrat, he's a god, too

He didn't want me to become a musician, he wanted me to be a doctor, because he said singing was too hard.

I also like Western classical music and jazz.

To be a qawwal is more than being a performer, more than being an artist. One must be willing to release one's mind and soul from one's body to achieve ecstasy through music. Qawwali is enlightenment itself.

The musical instuments may be western but my voice never wavers away from my own ragas. it is good to make experiments and I do a lot of them but my thoughts always round the centre and that centre is the tradition of my elders and it is classical music...