Media: World Music Production:
From the early 1980's, for about ten years, I worked, often as producer, to bring some of the world's great voices to the United States. Many of them were Sufis. For Milton Nascimento, who was already launched in the US by the time we met; I helped in various non-production capacities, including album translations and English vocal coach.
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Nusrat Fateh Ali Khanconcert production
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Abida ParveenAbida is one of the most charismatic singers alive today. She is very much a Sufi who sings songs based on the poetry of Sufi saints, in Punjabi and Seraiki, among other languages of the Indian subcontinent. The genre is … Read more…
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Milton NascimentoMilton is one of the greatest, and most influential, pop singers of the second half of the 20th century, and an icon in the jazz world. In Brazil, he’s an icon in the pop world, but for some reason when … Read more…
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NashenasA legend in Afghanistan before the Soviet invasion, Dr. Sadiq Fitrat took the name “Nashenas”, which means “unknown,” while he was director of Radio Afghanistan in Kabul. At night he used to broadcast recordings of his own songs, which went … Read more…
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Ahmad WaliAhmad Wali was a famous pop singer in Kabul, Aghanistan; he fled to Pakistan, and then Germany, following the Russian invasion. I met with him in Bonn, Germany to invite him to perform in the USA, where he enjoyed a … Read more…
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Ustad Salamat Ali KhanI met Ustan Salamat Ali Khan in Virginia; he was on a US tour, and took a night off to give a house concert with his sons at the home of Afghan friends. His ancestors were court musicians for the … Read more…