Featured in a BBC R3 World Roots programme last February in an interview of them taken in the actual shrine of Nizamuddin Aulyia in Old Delhi, these fine qawwali singers perform much more in the traditional classical style which was at once lyrical and tremendously rhythmic.

Nusrat Fateh Ali made qawwali very popular in the West and modified his style in doing so. The Nizami brothers are true to their traditions and do not involve Western instrumentation but are no less exciting. Led by Ghulam Sabir and Ghulam Waris, they are associated closely with the sacred shrine of the Sufi saint Nizamuddin Auliya, in Delhi, and trace their ancestry to the qawwali singers to the great Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya.

Qawwali is somewhat misunderstood as a song form. It has its origins in the songs of praise of Sufiism performed at the shrines or khanakas of great Sufi saints. The words are beautiful and often the singers will improvise and create poetry as they as well as their audience get more inspired and enter into a spiritual trance like state.
The group consists of seven artists who sing, play the harmonium, tabla and dhol.