{"id":27255,"date":"2014-07-31T10:00:33","date_gmt":"2014-07-31T10:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eoisabi.org\/?p=27255"},"modified":"2026-03-23T22:27:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T22:27:59","slug":"coke-studio-sessions-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/?p=27255","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan \u0639\u0631\u0628\u064a … Qawwali"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Coke\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Coke\u00a0Studio Sessions<\/strong> has gained exceptional popularity with their musical fusion of exciting elements and diverse influences, ranging from traditional eastern, modern western and regionally inspired music. Bringing together big stars of Pakistani folk and Sufi music and Rock\/Pop stars . . . very rich in sound.<\/p>\n

Produced by\u00a0Rohail Hyatt<\/a><\/strong>, founder of the first Pakistani pop band\u00a0Vital Signs<\/a><\/strong>, and his wife Umber Hyatt since 2008. Its featured artists on each episode are backed by a\u00a0house band\u00a0and guest artists.<\/sup><\/p>\n

\u2666 \u2192\u00a0Abida Parveen <\/a>\u00a0\u2193 \u00a0‘Soz-e-Ishq’<\/h5>\n

Abida Parveen<\/strong> is a well-known Pakistani singer in the traditions of qawwali, ghazal and kafi, and known to many as the Sufi Queen of music. Abida composes her own music adding to it lyrics from Sufi poetry, and she sings in Urdu, Sindhi, Hindi, Punjabi and Seraiki. Though \u00a0often compared to \u00a0Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Parveen says \u201cWe are all the same species \u2014 all humans have a representative of godliness, so there is really no male\/female division. I have been given this gift by the Divine, who does not recognize differences between male and female singing. I am simply a medium, and if you listen to me sing, even over the period of a few days, it will be entirely different because the transmission is from the Divine.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n