Abida Parveen, the Pakistani singer with the truly amazing voice, is in Mumbai over the weekend. She’s performing at the Aman Ki Asha concert at Bandra Fort on Sunday evening with our Shubha Mudgal. And fans of this Sufi singer who form a cult around the world, may expect ghazals, Urdu love poems, songs also in Punjabi, Sindhi and Seraiki — a Perso-Arabic language widely spoken in Pakistan, with Abida’s husky alto voice accompanied only by percussion and harmonium. But she’s also an entertainer in the true sense of the word, she sways with her songs, turns her hands in space, slaps her thighs, extends her palms upwards, she gives herself up to her music because for her ecstasy is spiritual, and Sufism is really the inner mystical dimension of Islam.
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