Even Bob Dylan considered himself a Sufi singer. He said in an interview with Rolling Stone:
“Yeah, [Sufi singing] that’s where my singing really comes from.” Dylan also states his favourite singer is the Egyptian Sufi singer Om Kalthoum, “the voice of [the] Arabs.”
— Youth
The video above was taken at this year’s World Sufi Spirit Festival in Jodhpur, which brings together Sufi musicians from around the world. To read an interview with two musicians who performed there this year–Killing Joke bassist Youth and Karen Ruimy–please click here…
