Ghulam Ali, Badshah-E-Ghazal Options

[swarapriya]

Ghulam Ali - Badshah-E-Ghazal

Ghulam Ali was born into a musical family. His father was a sarangi player as well as a vocalist. Ali was trained by Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan and his three brothers.

Ghulam Ali started singing for Radio Lahore in 1960. He has been a prolific singer and is very popular aside from Pakistan, his native country, in India as well. He has a large following through out the ghazal loving world.

Of late, Ghulam Ali is releasing only a few albums a year. He is concentrating on giving more live concerts traveling all around the world. The main instruments he uses for these concerts is a harmonium, that he usually plays, and an accompanying tabla. His use of other instruments is to complement the sounds of his music but he makes sure that it is his voice that is in control and not the instruments.

He released over 200 albums and sang several thousands of ghazals.

In the next few months, I will share of some of these albums with you. Here is "Aap Ki Pasand" ...

This post has been edited by swarapriya: Jan 3 2010, 10:25 PM

[swarapriya]

Meri Pasand (1983)

We started this thread with Ghulam Ali Saab's "Aap Ki Pasand" album. Now it is Ali Saab's turn. Here I will upload ghazals that are of Ghulam Ali Saab's liking, "Meri Pasand".

Ghulam Ali Saab released series of albums like this one, "Meri Pasand", and others like "An Evening with Ghulam Ali" or "Ghulam Ali in Concert" in different years with same titles. These albums sometimes had some of the same ghazals in it, but of different durations. For example, this album "Man Pasand" was released in 1983. There were two other volumes of the albums of the same name released in 1993 with some common ghazals of different durations. Similarly other albums I mentoned above.

This album has six beautiful ghazals. I am uploading them in two back-to-back posts. The ghazal "Heer" is in Punjabi. I don't understand the language, but the way Ghulam Ali Saab sings, it sounds very poignant and grabs your heart.

Here is the first set of ghazals from this beautiful album ...

This post has been edited by swarapriya: Mar 30 2010, 12:33 AM