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.
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I am not a Sufi, but I follow the Sufi.
A man learns all his life and dies the day he thinks that he has learnt everything.
I was just studying with my father, a very difficult task for me since he was a great, great Qawwali singer.
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.
Yes, you've got to sing from the depths of the heart.
Yes, I tried to change the classical style in a way that people who don't understand it can enjoy.