Aziz Nazan
Aziz Nazan's Chadhta Sooraj Dheere Dheere Dhalta Hai Dhal Jayega — on mortality, the pride of kings, the dust — is probably the most heard qawwali in India, played at every urs and in every cassette shop; Jhoom Barabar Jhoom Sharabi (Five Rifles, 1974) is the other, borrowed again by Shaad Ali's film thirty years later.
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Life
He was born in Bombay in 1938, learned from Ustad Khan Sahib and sang in the qawwali muqablas of the city in the 1960s; HMV recorded him from the early 1970s, and Chadhta Sooraj (Ismail Azad's words; Aziz Nazan's setting) made him famous across the subcontinent. He sang in a few films and died in Bombay in 1992.
The voice
A strong, open, street-trained tenor with the qawwal's hammering rhythm and a plain, carrying diction.
Composers
- His own settings
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1970s
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