Since this ensemble was created, Fanna-Fi-Allah has performed at hundreds of festivals, gatherings and concerts worldwide. In 2001 Tahir Qawwal & Aminah Chishty first formed Fanna-Fi-Allah, a traditionally arranged qawwali ensemble devoted to spreading the sufi message in the West. Tahir QawwalвЂ™s first knowledge of sur came by the kindness of Pandit Sanjeev Jha of Varanasi. Because of the wide tonal spectrum of classical Indian raaga notation, the profound journey into sur requires the grace of a guru.

Several years of rigorous tabla instruction later, Tahir became completely enchanted by his teachers singing voice.TahirвЂ™s late teens were mostly spent wandering in the Gharwal HimalayasВ living as a lonely dervish, practicing the yogic path and searching for sur with a shruti box in hand.вЂ™SurвЂ™ is at the heart of all Indian/Pakistani classical music and when translated to English means вЂpurity of sound and pitchвЂ™.

At fifteen he was taken in by the great tabla maestro Harjeet Seyan Singh, and under his noble tutelage initiated into the profound subject of Indian rhythm cycles. Originally from a small town in Nova-Scotia Canada, Tahir Hussain Faridi Qawwal has been journeying into music and mysticism within the Indian subcontinent from a very young age.

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