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unusual facts about Aabshar-e-Ghazal


Kuch Door Hamare Saath

Kuch Door Hamare Saath was a re-release of 1985 hit ghazal album, Aabshar-e-Ghazal.


Aathwan Sur – The Other Side of Naushad

Aathwan Sur – The Other Side of Naushad is an album of the Indian singer and Ghazal composer Hariharan, released in the year 1998 by Navras Records.

Abhishek Singhvi

Abhishek Singhvi is married to ghazal and Sufi singer Anita Singhvi.

Agra gharana

This is the only Gharana that has still continued to sing Dhrupad-Dhamar along with Nom-Tom Alap, Khayal, Thumri, Tappa, Tarana, Hori, Dadra, Ghazal, Kaul, Rasiya etc.

Aitbaar

While Mark Halliday is a crime writer, Suresh Oberoi's character is a Ghazal singer.

Amanat Ali

Amjad Amanat Ali Khan (1953–2002), classical, semi-classical and ghazal singer from Pakistan.

Amanat Ali Khan (1922–1974), Pakistani classical/ghazal singer, from the Patiala gharana

Asad Amanat Ali Khan (1955–2007), classical, semi-classical and ghazal singer from Pakistan

Amir Meenai

The famous ghazal 'sarakatee jaayey hai rukh se naqab aahista, aahista...' attributed to Ameer Minai has been sung in a film starred by Rishi Kapoor and Tina Munim.

Anuj Rastogi

In 2003, Anuj met Ghazal and tabla artist Cassius Khan, and began to bridge traditional and electronic music through their first few collaborations.

Apostolic Vicariate of Sudan

In the early 20th century it included: — stations at Assuan (now in Egypt), Omdurman, Khartoum (central station); Lul and Atigo (White Nile); Wau, Kayango and 'Cleveland' (Bahrel-Ghazal); Omach and Gulu (Uganda); besides twenty-five localities provided excurrendo.

Ayn Ghazal

Zochrot, an Israeli-Jewish organization that aims to raise awareness of the Nakba has produced a booklet on Ayn Ghazal and organized tours to the site of the destroyed village.

Bade Fateh Ali Khan

Though trained also in the mediaeval Dhrupad genre, the uncle-nephew duo restricts its repertoire to the modern mainstream genre, Khayal, and the romanticist genres, Thumris, Dadra, and Ghazal.

Basavaraj Rajguru

His repertoire ranged from the pure classical, Dhrupad to Vachanas, Natyageet, Thumri, and Ghazal (different styles of Indian music) spanning eight languages.

Bhatt Mathuranath Shastri

Shastri wrote many songs in Sanskrit, introducing the popular folk music genre of Ghazal, and Hindustani classical music genres of Thumris, Dadras and Dhrupads into Sanskrit.

Canadian Music Week

Cassius Khan, Indian Classical Musician; The Ghazal Tabla Wizard

Cassius Khan

Khan has also collaborated with the inventor of the Mohan Veena, Pandit Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, Ustad Aashish Khan the great Sarode player of the Maihar Gharana, Satvik Veena exponent Pandit Salil Bhatt, Kathak Danceuse/Harmonium soloist Amika Kushwaha, amongst other greats of Indian classical music and Ghazal singers.

Culture of Pakistan

The variety of Pakistani music ranges from diverse provincial folk music and traditional styles such as Qawwali and Ghazal Gayaki to modern forms fusing traditional and Western music, such as the synchronisation of Qawwali and Western music by the world-renowned Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan.

Dayal Thakur

He is an accomplished singer, famous for his distinctive style of Ghazals, Thumris and Khayals.

Elijah Malok Aleng

The Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) forces of Eagle Battalion, whom they were commanding, were largely made up of Dinka elements from Northern Bahr el Ghazal specifically from Abiei, Gogrial and Aweil Counties.

Georg August Schweinfurth

Starting from Khartoum in January 1869, he went up the White Nile to Bahr-el-Ghazal, and then, with a party of ivory dealers, through the regions inhabited by the Diur (Dyoor), Dinka, Bongo and Niam-Niam; crossing the Congo-Nile watershed he entered the country of the Mangbetu (Monbuttu) and discovered the river Uele (March 19, 1870), which by its westward flow he knew was independent of the Nile.

Ghazal Srinivas

Kesiraju Srinivas (born 14 October 1966 in Tekkali, Srikakulam district, Andhra Pradesh ), popularly known as Ghazal Srinivas, holds the Guinness world record for most languages sung.

Hariharan – Down the Years

It includes 7 tracks, 6 of them compiled from earlier ghazal albums of Hariharan and the famous patriotic song Bharath Humko Jaan Se Pyara Hai, composed by musician A. R. Rahman for the 1992 film Roja.

Intoxicating Hariharan

Intoxicating Hariharan is a studio album of the Indian singer and Ghazal composer Hariharan, released in the year 1996 by Indian label Omi Music.

Ishrat Afreen

The renowned ghazal singers Jagjit Singh & Chitra Singh also performed her poetry in their anthology, Beyond Time (1987).

Kailash Mehra Sadhu

Kailash Mehra Sadhu, also known as Malika-e-Ghazal, was born in Dogra, Nainital.

Khalil Ahmed

He composed music for film Khamosh Raho (1964) and recorded a ghazal in Ahmed Rushdi's voice Mei nahi manta (lyrics Habib Jalib) which gained him country-wide fame.

Leslie Lewis

Lewis began singing something while strumming his guitar, Hari felt inspired to jam with an alaap, and the result: the seamless fusion of Eastern and Western sounds that has become characteristic of the Colonial Cousins.The year 1996 was a career milestone; he formed the band Colonial Cousins with ghazal singer Hariharan.

Mahmoud Abdel Moghny

A starring role in Dam El Ghazal followed, playing the real-life story of terrorist Reda “Reesha.” This film was directed by Mohamed Yassine, and co-starred Egyptian actor, Amr Waked.

Minmini

Many of her songs turned into hits, including "Souparnikamritha" (Kizhakkunarum Pakshi), "Oonjal Urangi", "Neelaraavil" (Kudumbasametham), "Kakka Poocha" (Pappayude Swantham Apoos), "Paathiraavayi" (Vietnam Colony), "Swayam Varamai" (Paithrukam), "Vellithinkal" (Meleparambil Aanveedu), "Aarunee Jinmakale Peru Cholamo" (Ghazal), and many others.

My Favourite Hits

My Favourite Hits is a compilation album of the Indian singer and Ghazal composer Hariharan, released in the year 1990.

Pankaj Subeer

His research on Ghazal earned him the honorific Ghazal Guru in the community of new Ghazal learners.

Philip Francis

Philip V. Francis (1964–2008), tabla player, composer and Ghazal singer from Kerala, India

Salim Ghazal

In April 2011 Bishop Gazal succumbed to illness, following the outpouring of grief and admiration for his life's work from all spheres of the Lebanese spectrum, the President of the Republic bestowed upon Bishop Ghazal the rank of Commander of The National Order of the Cedar.

Seemab Akbarabadi

Seemab began ghazal writing in 1892 and in 1898 became a disciple of Nawab Mirza Khan Daagh Dehlawi (1831–1905) to whom he was personally introduced by Munshi Nazar Hussain Sakhaa Dehlawi at the Kanpur Railway Station.

Twic East County

They Dinka people are an ethnic group inhabiting the Bahr el Ghazal region of the Nile basin, Jonglei and parts of southern Kordufan and Upper Nile regions.

Umbayee

Umbayee is an Indian folk musician and composer, associated with the Ghazal genre.

Vandana Vishwas

Her sophomore music album 'Monologues', released in January 2013 is a collection of contemporary Ghazals, Nazms and light Thumris.

Waheed Akhtar

His published collections of poetry comprise mainly ghazals and nazms, but wrote other forms of poetry, like Marsia (elegy) in the musaddas format; Qasida (Panegyric), Hajv (lampoon), Manqibat, Salaam, Rubai (quatrain).

Zaka Siddiqi

Ghazal singer Jagjit Singh has performed two of his ghazals, Khamoshi Khud Apni Sada Ho and Jeete Rehne Ki Saza De in his albums In Search and Face to Face, respectively.


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