Monday, March 24, 2003		Web Jingle

GHULAM Ali was born in 1940, at Kaleke village, Sialkot district, which is now a part of Pakistan. He belongs to musicians’ family. His father was a vocalist and sarangi player. He got training from his father when he was young and later learnt from Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan, an unparalleled legend of classical music, and then Ustad’s brother Barkat Ali Khan. He was also trained by Bade Mubarak Ali Khan. All these great teachers of classical music taught him classical music, making him one of the best classical singers.

Ghulam Ali started singing at Lahore radio during 1960. While experimenting with classical singing and raagas, he realised that music lovers usually enjoy semi-classical or classical-based ghazals more than pure classical music. Sufi Sahib, a renowned poet, guided him to render ghazals. Sufi Sahib taught him how to recite sher in a manner so that the meaning and the beauty of the poetry is not distorted.

Ghulam Ali recites each word clearly, making sure that the meaning of the ghazal is conveyed effectively. He has the ability to recite the same sher five times making it sound different each time.
Some of his ghazals have been used in the Bollywood movies. His popular ghazal, Chupke chupke raat din, has been used in the movie, Nikaah. Many of the Hindi film songs have been inspired from some of his ghazals like, Thodi si jo pi li hain, chori to nahi ki hain from Namak Halal which was inspired by his ghazal, Hungama hain kyon barpa. As Ghulam Ali believes in quality than quantity he produces just one or two albums a year and rest of the time concentrates more on live concerts. In September 2001, he released an album, Visaal, with famous Indian poet Gulzar.

When Ghulam Ali sings he just uses harmonium and tabla. Musical instruments, sarod, sitar, santoor, often complement him, but it is his voice that rules, and not the instruments.

www.musicindiaonline.com/music/l/02010L

On this page we can find names of almost all albums of Ghulam Ali. The name of every album has a link, which opens a page where we can see the list of songs of that album. This is the best site that have the largest number of songs sung by him. Chupke Chupke, Kal Chudhvin Ki Raat, Itni Muddat Baad, Mere Shauq Da, Hum To Kitnon Ko ,Koi Atka Hua Hai Pal, Hangama Hai Kyun, Dost Ban Kar Bhi are some of the hit songs of Ghulam Ali which are available for listing on this site. We can only listen the songs online the site doesn’t permit us to download the songs.

www.apnahome.net/apnaorg/music/GhulamAli/

This site belongs to Academy of the Punjab in North America (APNA). This site contains big collection of some of the famous songs sung by Ghulam Ali. You can select the song, which you want to listen. If you are interested in getting any of these songs on CDs then you can send e-mail to rammah@apnaorg.com. You can also e-mail this Web page to your friend.

www.geocities.com/technofundo/fun/music/ga/gamore.html

This site pays a rich tribute to the ghazal maestro, Ghulam Ali. Complete biography of Ghulam Ali is given on this site. This site contains collection of Ghulam Ali’s songs that are sorted in different pages and each page contains 25 songs. Here search engine is given that can be used to search ghazal and lyrics of Ghulam Ali songs.