Badar Miandad Khan (17 February 1962 – 2 March 2007), also known as Badar Ali Khan, was a Pakistani
qawwali
Qawwali is a form of Sufi Islamic devotional singing originating in the Indian subcontinent. Originally performed at Sufi shrines throughout the Indian subcontinent, it is famous throughout Pakistan, India, Bangladesh and Afghanistan and has ...
singer. He released several albums in Pakistan. Several albums were also released under UK and
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Early life and career
Ustad Badar Miandad was born on 17 February 1962 into a noted family of qawwals in
Pak Pattan.
[(Associated Press of Pakistan) ] His father Ustad Rasheed Miandad and grandfather Ustad Din Muhammad Qawwal were reputed qawwals in Punjabi language
Punjabi, sometimes spelled Panjabi, is an Indo-Aryan languages, Indo-Aryan language native to the Punjab region of Pakistan and India. It is one of the most widely spoken native languages in the world, with approximately 150 million native sp ...
. He was a cousin and brother-in-law of the late Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (, ; born Pervez Fateh Ali Khan; 13 October 1948 – 16 August 1997), also known by his initials NFAK, was a Pakistani singer, songwriter, and music director. Khan was primarily a singer of qawwali, a form of Sufi devot ...
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Qawwal 'Badar Miandad' Remembered on His Death Anniversary
UrduPoint.com website, Retrieved 6 June 2021
Badar Miandad started his qawwali career in 1975, and by the mid 1980s, he had become one of the famous qawwals of Pakistan.[ He composed the music for Bollywood films, including Virod, starring ]Salman Khan
Abdul Rashid Salim Salman Khan (; born 27 December 1965) is an Indian actor, film producer, and television personality who predominantly works in Hindi films. In a career spanning over three decades, his awards include two National Film Awa ...
.[ He also composed the music for several Pakistani films, including Chupkay Chupkay, Lahoria, Ibrat, But Shikan (1994 film) and ]Jannat Ki Talash
''Jannat Ki Talash'' is a 1999 Pakistani film which won the Nigar Award for Best Film of the Year for 1999.
Plot summary
''Jannat Ki Talash'' is set in around the year 1947, when Pakistan was newly formed and revolves around Salma (Resham). S ...
(1999 film) which won the Nigar Award
The Nigar Awards () were presented in an annual award show to recognize outstanding achievement in Pakistani cinema, after having been revived in 2017 following a 15-year absence. The honors are awarded by Nigar Magazine founded in 1948. The ...
for Best Film of 1999.
Family
Badar Miandad got married in 1985. Badar Miandad has two daughters, Fiza Badar and Anam Badar, and three sons, Sikandar Badar Miandad, Ali Badar Miandad,
Popular qawwalis
* ''Awwal Hamd Sana-e-Ilahi Jo Maalik Har Har Da'' – Kalaam lyrics by the famous 19th century Sufi
Sufism ( or ) is a mysticism, mystic body of religious practice found within Islam which is characterized by a focus on Islamic Tazkiyah, purification, spirituality, ritualism, and Asceticism#Islam, asceticism.
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poet Mian Muhammad Bakhsh
Mīān Muhammad Bakhsh (, ; – 22 January 1907) was a Punjabi Muslim poet from Khari Sharif, in present-day Azad Jammu and Kashmir. He wrote 18 books during his lifetime of 77 years, especially remembered for his romantic epic poem, "'' S ...
(1830–1907)
* ''Aimay Panj Wailay Marnan Ae Pheray, Maseeton Teinun Ki Labhna'' – Kalaam lyrics by another 18th century Sufi
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Practitioners of Sufism are r ...
poet Bulleh Shah
Sayyid Abdullāh Shāh Qādrī (; ), popularly known as Baba Bulleh Shah and vocatively as Bulleya, was a Punjabi revolutionary philosopher, reformer and Chishti Sufi poet, regarded the 'Father of Punjabi Enlightenment'; and one of the g ...
* ''Dam Dam Hussain Maula Hussain''[
* ''Jashan-e-Aamad-e-Rasool''][
* ''Tu Nahi Tay Tairiyan Yaadan Sahi''][
* ''Ganj Shakar, Walian Da Raja''][
* ''Husan Walo Khuda Kay Liy Chordo, Aashiquon Ko Jalana Boorri Baat Hai''
* ''Ban Ja Malang Ghaus Da''
Like his famous cousin, Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Badar Miandad Khan experimented with qawwali remix projects, in which traditional qawwali lyrics were performed to non-traditional instruments and contemporary beats. He Working with producer/arranger/composer Suresh "Baba" Varma, Badar produced a best-selling qawwali fusion album, ''Good Karma 1''.
Khan's Qawwali "Raataan Kaaliyaan / Black Nights" was featured on famous American TV show Breaking Bad's Season 3 Episode 7.
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Death
Badar Miandad died on 2 March 2007 at age 47 in Lahore
Lahore ( ; ; ) is the capital and largest city of the Administrative units of Pakistan, Pakistani province of Punjab, Pakistan, Punjab. It is the List of cities in Pakistan by population, second-largest city in Pakistan, after Karachi, and ...
due to a heart attack after two years of cardiac trouble, complications from diabetes
Diabetes mellitus, commonly known as diabetes, is a group of common endocrine diseases characterized by sustained high blood sugar levels. Diabetes is due to either the pancreas not producing enough of the hormone insulin, or the cells of th ...
and blood pressure problems. A few months ago, he was also struck by paralysis. He had been bed-ridden for the last two years and had quit singing qawwali one year ago.[
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1960 births
2007 deaths
Pakistani qawwali singers
People from Pakpattan
20th-century Pakistani male singers
20th-century Pakistani singers
Performers of Sufi music
Family of Fateh Ali Khan (Qawwali singer)
Musicians from Punjab, Pakistan