I was just studying with my father, a very difficult task for me since he was a great, great Qawwali singer.

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

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

I have a daughter, she's twenty years old.

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...

I was just studying with my father, a very difficult task for me since he was a great, great Qawwali singer.

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.