Sabri Brothers

The Sabri Brothers ( Urdu صابری برادران ) were a Qawwali group from Pakistan Ghulam Farid Sabri brothers to the ( 1930-1994 ) and Ahmed Sabri Maqbul ( 1945-2011 ). In addition to Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan were among the best known in the West performers this Sufi music style.

Life and work

The Sabri Brothers were born in Kalyana in today's Indian state of Haryana, which was part of Punjab earlier. After the partition of India in 1947 they emigrated with her family to Pakistan. As early as they were 5 years they received a musical education from her father, Ustad Inayat Sen Sabri, whose family their family tree back to the 16th century leads to Mian Tansen, a legendary Indian musician at the court of Akbar.

His first Qawwali Party ( " ensemble" ) founded Maqbul Ahmed Sabri 1955, in the following year he founded with his older brother, who was previously a member of the Party of Kallan Khan, a duo. Their collaboration was always overshadowed by fraternal strife and they worked temporarily as soloists, but found again and again until the death of Ghulam Farid Sabri together and created an extensive body of work, much rougher and more traditionalist than that of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. Although in 1974, started to appear in Western countries, they refused collaborations and crossover and could be explained: The music of Sabri Brothers is not secular. Do not mix it with the secular. It is very important for you to maintain its tradition as Sufi music and they will do just that. (Eva Skalla, spokeswoman for the Sabri Brothers 1996). With this attitude, they are never more than a moderate success achieved while in the West, but they could maintain their artistic integrity in their homeland.

Ghulam Farid Sabri's funeral The 1994 Karachi was accompanied by more than 30,000 mourners. His brother Ahmed Sabri Maqbul died on 21 September 2011 in South Africa of a heart attack.

Discography

Western Publications

  • " Ya Habib ", 1990
  • " Qawwali Masterworks ", 1993
  • " Kawwali Musicians from Pakistan ", 1994
  • " Ya Mustapha ", 1996
  • " Jami ", 1996
  • "Greatest Hits of Sabri Brothers", Vol.1 -3, 1994-97
  • " Qawwali Sufi Music Of Pakistan ", 1998
  • " Musiciens du Kawwali Pakistan ", 1998
  • " Qawwali: Sufi Music of Pakistan ", 2002
  • " Tasleem ", 2003

Publications in Pakistan (selection)

  • " Pyar Ke Morr Par", 1993
  • " Savere Savere "
  • " La Elah Ki Boli Bol "
  • " Piya Ghar Aaya "
  • " Tajdar -e -Haram "
  • " Khawaja Ki Deewani "
  • " Saqia Aur Pila "
  • " Milta Hai Kya Namaz Main"
  • " Nazan Hai Jis Pe "
  • " Ajmer Ko Jana Hai "
  • " Posheeda Posheeda "
  • " Bala Ghul Ala Be Kamal -e- Hi"
  • " Maikadah "
  • " Hazir Hain "
  • " Ya Rehmat Al- Aalmin "
  • " Jhoole Jhoole Ji Mohammad "
  • " Bindia Lagaon Kabhi "

Further Reading

  • Sabri Brothers. In: Late Pandit Nikhil Ghosh (ed.): The Oxford Encyclopaedia of the Music of India. Sangit Mahābhāratī. Vol 3 (P -Z ) Oxford University Press, New Delhi 2011, p 907F
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