Singer-songwriter Abbas Ali Khan’s genre devotional music paired with articulate expression. After beginning his musical journey nearly a decade ago with the album Sun Re (2006), he has now drifted towards creating Sufi music, something
Abbas, marked his Coke Studio debut with the song Mujhe Baar Baar .
“Tamaam Alam Mast contains devotional influences from Baba Gulzar Sabri to Khusrow,” says Abbas. He finds nothing wrong with the emerging trend of Sufi music being considered as a ‘cool’ way of pivoting the new generations towards spirituality. Abbas credits his success to Ustad Fateh Ali Khan, who has guided him throughout his tryst with music. “My guru Ustad Fateh Ali Khan has been an exception in this regard. He taught me whatever I could absorb, which is why I was able to bridge intuition with influence,” he says.
With over 200,000 hits for his song Mujhe Baar Baar, Abbas says, “Coke Studio is perhaps the only platform that brings a musician to the spotlight.”
Although Abbas acknowledges that every artiste wants acclaim, he holds that putting heart and soul into what one believes in brings commercial value to the product by itself. “I don’t follow anyone’s league. I prefer making my own,” he remarked .
