Qawwal Ghulam Farid Sabri was born in Kalyana, a village in the district of Rohtak in East Punjab, India in 1930 and later shifted to Karachi. The famous duo Ghulam Farid Sabri and his brother Maqbool Sabri were known as Sabri Brothers, they acclaimed much fame in Qawwali. They belong to a musical family, at […]
Ghulam Farid Sabri
The man who took Qawwali to the West
Ghulam Farid Sabri was born in British Punjab’s Rohtak district in 1930 to a family of gifted artists that traced its lineage back to the legendary musician Mian Tansen, one of the ‘Nine Jewels’ in the court of Mughal emperor Akbar – The Great. Before migrating to Pakistan upon the country’s inception, Ghulam Farid Sabri […]