Re: Her: Abida Parveen in Houston and LA (today and tomorrow)

[Saghir Shaikh <saghir@UNLIMITED.NET>]

Nadeem Jamali wrote:
>
> Friends!
>
> Just saw these announcements on a usenet newsgroup.  Abida Parveen is
> probably the most popular Kafi Singer in Sindhi, and especially in the
> Siraiki dialect.  She'll be performing in Houston tonight and LA
> tomorrow night.  But seeing that the organizers have added Persian to
> the list of languages she'll be singing in (highly unlikely,
> considering she doesn't know any Persian), I'd say it's mostly going
> to be in Urdu and Punjabized Siraiki.
>
> --
>
> The world-renowned Sufi artist Abida Parveen will be performing with her
> ensemble in Houston on Friday, 18 June.  She will be presenting in her unique
> style various forms of devotional kalam, including qavvali, Kafi, and ghazal,
> in Urdu, Sindhi, Punjabi, and Persian.
>
>
Nadeem,

Just add to few comments.

In my opinion, they list Persian to attract the big Iranian community
living in LA, and lot of are
fascinated with Sufism. Knowing Abida Parveen's talent in singing and
language learning, she
I am sure will also sing in Persian. All the language, other than
SIndhi, she sings, i.e. Urdu, Seriaki, she has the perfect the accent
(after discussing with the native speakers).

One more comment on "Punjabized Seriaki", actually according to
Professor Shackle, the Seriaki
scholar in SOAS, London,( one of the renown, who wrote Seriaki grammar)
officially classifies
Seraiki into five dialects. What you call "punjabized seriaki" is named
"Multani". However, the
Seraiki Kafis sung by Abida tend be mostly from Baba Farid, and Sachal,
they are usually more closer to Sindhi, at least I understand it all (I
am known to have very poor language skills :).

It will be a great event, if she does not go into the "pop singing"
mode, I would recommend it to
all LA and Houstanians.

--
peace
Saghir