Badar Miandad Khan (17 February 1962 – 2 March 2007), also known as Badar Ali Khan, was a Pakistani

qawwali Qawwali ( Punjabi: (Shahmukhi), (Gurmukhi); Urdu: (Nasta'liq); Hindi: क़व्वाली (Devanagari); Bengali: কাওয়ালি (Bengali)) is a form of Sufi Islamic devotional singing, originating from the Indian subcontinent ...

singer. He released several albums in Pakistan. Several albums were also released under UK and

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labels.

Early life and career

Ustad Badar Miandad was born in 1960 in a noted family of qawwals in Pak Pattan. His father Ustad Miandad and grandfather Ustad Din Muhammad Qawwal were reputed qawwals in

Punjabi language Punjabi (; ; , ), sometimes spelled Panjabi, is an Indo-Aryan language of the Punjab region of Pakistan and India. It has approximately 113 million native speakers. Punjabi is the most widely-spoken first language in Pakistan, with 80.5 m ...

. He was a cousin and brother-in-law of the late Ustad

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan ( pa, ; born Pervez Fateh Ali Khan; 13 October 1948 – 16 August 1997) was a Pakistani singer, songwriter, and music director. He was primarily a singer of qawwali — a form of Sufi music, Sufi devotional music. ...

.(Sumaira FH)
Qawwal 'Badar Miandad' Remembered On His Death Anniversary
UrduPoint.com website, Retrieved 6 June 2021 Badar Miandad started his qawwali career in 1975, and by the mid 1980s, he had earned some fame. He composed the music for Bollywood films, including Virod, starring

Salman Khan Abdul Rashid Salim Salman Khan (; 27 December 1965) is an Indian actor, film producer, and television personality who works in Hindi films. In a film career spanning over thirty years, Khan has received numerous awards, including two Nation ...

. He also composed the music for several Pakistani films, including Chupkay Chupkay, Lahoria, Ibrat, But Shikan (1994 film) and

Jannat Ki Talash ''Jannat Ki Talash'' is a 1999 Pakistani film which won the Nigar Award for Best Film of the Year for 1999. Plot summary ''Jannat Ki Talash'' is set in around the year 1947, when Pakistan was newly formed and revolves around Salma (Resham). ...

(1999 film) which won the

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for Best Film of 1999.

Popular qawwalis

* ''Awwal Hamd Sana-e-Ilahi Jo Maalik Har Har Da'' – Kalaam lyrics by the famous 19th century

Sufi Sufism ( ar, ''aṣ-ṣūfiyya''), also known as Tasawwuf ( ''at-taṣawwuf''), is a mystic body of religious practice, found mainly within Sunni Islam but also within Shia Islam, which is characterized by a focus on Islamic spirituality, ...

poet

Mian Muhammad Bakhsh Mīān Muhammad Bakhsh (میاں محمد بخش) was a Punjabi Muslim Sufi and poet. Born in the city of Mirpur to a Gujjar family of Paswal tribe, he is renowned as a great poet and Sufi scholar by the people of Punjab and Azad Kashmir. Wri ...

(1830–1907) * ''Aimay Panj Wailay Marnan Ae Pheray, Maseeton Teinun Ki Labhna'' – Kalaam lyrics by another 18th century

poet

Bulleh Shah Syed Abdullah Shah Qadri ( pa, ; ; 1680–1757), known popularly as Bulleh Shah ( pa, ; ) and Bulleya, was a Punjabi philosopher and Sufi poet during 17th-century Punjab. His ancestors had migrated from Bukhara (modern-day Uzbekistan) ...

* ''Dam Dam Hussain Maula Hussain'' * ''Jashan-e-Aamad-e-Rasool'' * ''Tu Nahi Tay Tairiyan Yaadan Sahi'' * ''Ganj Shakar, Walian Da Raja'' * ''Husan Walo Khuda Kay Liy Chordo, Aashiquon Ko Jalana Boorri Baat Hai'' * ''Ban Ja Malang Ghaus Da'' Like his famous cousin, Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Badar Miandad Khan experimented with qawwali remix projects, in which traditional qawwali lyrics were performed to non-traditional instruments and contemporary beats. Working with producer/arranger/composer Suresh "Baba" Varma, Badar produced a best-selling qawwali fusion album, ''Good Karma 1''. Khan's Qawwali "Raataan Kaaliyaan / Black Night" was featured on famous American TV show Breaking Bad's Season 3 Episode 7.

Death

Badar Miandad died on 2 March 2007 in

Lahore Lahore ( ; pnb, ; ur, ) is the second most populous city in Pakistan after Karachi and 26th most populous city in the world, with a population of over 13 million. It is the capital of the province of Punjab where it is the largest city. ...

due to a heart attack after two years of cardiac trouble, complications from diabetes and blood pressure problems. A few months ago, he was also struck by paralysis. He had been bed-ridden for the last two years and had quit singing qawwali one year ago. His younger brother Sher Miandad who also is a well-known qawwali singer told newspaper reporters, after his death, that he had suffered a heart attack five years ago and then suffered another fatal heart attack again on 2 March 2007, when he died.

References

External links

* 1960 births 2007 deaths Pakistani qawwali singers People from Pakpattan District Punjabi people 20th-century Pakistani male singers Performers of Sufi music Fateh Ali Khan family {{Pakistan-singer-stub