Ghazal

For hundreds of years, musicians from India and Pakistan have taken the poetry called ghazal and set it to music. The songs project such deep longing that you don’t need to know Urdu to feel the pain. Produced by Rob Weisberg.

Produced by:

Rob Weisberg

Comments [2]

David Trejo from Falls Church, Va

The album mentioned is Qareeb and the artist is Najma.

It is available at amazon here:

http://www.amazon.com/Qareeb-Najma/dp/B000000E2H

Jul. 19 2009 06:31 PM

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Lynda Mabbs-Zeno from Alexandria, VA WAMU

Who is the artist and what is the name of the 1987 ghazal song mentioned at the start of this show. The name sounds like "Kareeb"

Jul. 17 2009 07:12 PM

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