I was just studying with my father, a very difficult task for me since he was a great, great Qawwali singer.
There are two languages that I love: Farsi and Panjabi. Because the depth of Sufi thought in these two languages cannot be found in any other language.
I am not a Sufi, but I follow the Sufi.
As the times change, people change, and so do their tastes, so I try to understand what the public wants, what they require. I have tried to make the music a bit easier for them to understand.
From childhood, I had been instructed in the tablaa by my father, along with the astaais and antaraas specific to our Gharana.
A performer learns with experience and with age. I did not know the future when I left home and started out to begin my career: I started qawaali; then I met Peter Gabriel and was exposed to a lot of new ideas.
