Music plays an increasingly important role in shaping and directing the beliefs and ideas of our rapidly changing world. I believe that the music we listen to can literally orchestrate our individual life experiences. Music is a potent and powerful energy! It is essential that we consciously engage and personally interact with Music...

One of my favorite singers... Abida Parveen is considered by many on the Indian subcontinent to be the queen of Sufi mystical singing. Her inspiration is the Sufi saint Shah Abdul Latif, an 18th century poet and composer who blended folk music and classical raga in a style known as kafi. Ms. Parveen sings in Urdu, Punjabi, Sindhi, Seraiki (a Sindhi dialect). Ms. Parveen primarily sings the structured, poetic kafi as well as the soulful ghazal genre of singing and improvisational qawwali style.

For the ultimate high, I strongly recommend purchasing her "Mystic Poetry" CD and trying to sing along...the playful breathing alone involved in the singing will be a thrill... then there is the perfect Urdu pronounciation and the romantic, enchanting interview answers...