![]() At his knee, she imbibed the Sufi canon and a respect for its power.Įven as a young child she had a “thirst for learning”, she explains through her translator. Parveen began singing as a three-year old, encouraged by her father Ustad Ghulam Haider – himself a famous musician. “I’m very peaceful, it feels like there’s a lot of peace here,” she says when we meet. Melbourne gets her for a single night only, in an exclusive concert that’s part of the three-month Asia Topa festival of Asian performing arts. As Kamile Shamsie wrote in 2005, “you could find entire neighbourhoods, possibly towns, in Pakistan where the residents would be delighted to be kept up until dawn by the sound of Parveen”. Dressed in flowing robes and scarf, her hair a mass of handsome dark curls, she seems to carry a little bubble of grace around with her – despite being anchored by pink sneakers.īest known for her command of the ghazal, kafi and qawwali – classic forms of Sufi music and poetry – the colossal artistic stature of Parveen in her homeland of Pakistan is hard to convey for the western reader. ![]() S ufi superstar Abida Parveen – a giant of world music – is an arresting presence.
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