Riyaaz Qawwali is a Qawwali group based in Houston, Texas. With conservative growth and heightened attention to quality, Riyaaz Qawwali has performed across the continental U.S., as well as internationally in Panama and Holland.

1. Welcome
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Riyaaz Qawwali

2. About Riyaaz Qawwali
The art of qawwali, as with most of the great Asian musical and literary traditions, is transmitted orally ...
The vehicle of music is used to bring one closer to the experience of the inner truth. Riyaaz qawwal will
dwell on certain words to give them a wider context creating great depth in the apparently simple
language ... He will often repeat a phrase or sentence indicating both the obvious and hidden content by
emphasizing or ruminating upon particular words and syllables, taking the audience into the discovery of
hitherto obscure meanings. Thus, mundane objects are embued with deeper meaning — a spinning
wheel becomes the wheel of life.
Qawwali is a venerable yet refreshing musical tradition that dates back to the late 13th century. The word
qaul refers to an "utterance (of the prophet)" and the first Qawwals (qawwali artists) repeated these qauls
by making them the subject matter of their qawwalis.

3. Best Qawwali
Qawwali is an amazing genre of music with lively rhythmic cycles, gripping melodies and a unique
approach to adding improvisational poetry. ISHQ and KASTI is the best Qawwali album of Riyaazqawwali.
Checkout Riyaaz Qawwali’s album online.
Famous among such artists was a man named Amir Khusro. More than
700 years since Amir Khusro composed the famous qaul ‘Man Kunto
Maula’, Riyaaz Qawwali envisions modernizing the genre for today's
audience, while staying true to the ethos of qawwali.

4. With a harmonious blend of South Asian and the Western influences, Sonny K. Mehta leads the ensemble as the
artistic director for Riyaaz Qawwali. With over 24 years of classical music training, he has spent half of that time
devoted to understanding and growing an awareness of qawwali.
With fluency in Urdu, Punjabi, Hindi and English, he is well suited to be a cultural ambassador and take a very
secluded/folk art form (as well as the associated poetry) to the Western audiences and the newer South Asian
generations.

5. Qawwali is an amazing genre of music, with lively rhythmic cycles, gripping melodies and a unique approach to
adding improvisational poetry. It is no wonder then that this genre has gripped the attention of each musician that
has joined the group. It is the party’s goal to re-familiarize audiences in the United States with this unique musical
style.
The songs which constitute the qawwali repertoire are mostly in Urdu and Punjabi (almost equally divided
between the two), although there are several songs in Brajbhasha and Persian. The poetry is implicitly understood
to be spiritual in its meaning and the central themes are love, devotion and longing (for the Divine). Qawwalis are
classified by their content into several categories:
Hamd - praise for Allah
Naat - praise of the Prophet Muhammad
Manqabat - praise of either Imam Ali or one of the Sufi saints

6. Contact Us
16910 Hidden Treasure, Friendswood TX
77546
Phone Number: +832-875-4139
http://www.riyaazqawwali.com/

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