As a teen, I enjoyed Sufi music and ghazals the most. But as my career began, I drifted off to playback and other streams over the years.
I am very fond of ghazals. I like ghazals from Jagjit Singh and Sir Ghulam Ali.
In my opinion, being an all-rounder is good. It is not right that I should be content with qawwali and ignore other forms, since I am basically trained in classical singing. We should be masters of all forms of singing.
I have a taste for ghazals and I like them.
I'm interested in Qawwali and the blues.
These three elements are called Qawwali, and they've got to be there.
I was just studying with my father, a very difficult task for me since he was a great, great Qawwali singer.
You've got to sing from the depths of the heart. Without heart, you cannot be a Qawwal.
My father gave me formal education in raagdari. He died in Lahore in 1964 when I was 13. I was in the tenth year of school, and my father's brother took me into the qawwali ensemble and started giving me formal education in qawwali.
