Fanna-Fi-Allah

Fanna-Fi-Allah (فنا فی الله) is a Canadian-American group which plays Qawwali, a form of Sufi devotional music popular in South Asia.It consists of seven members.Group leader Tahir Faridi Qawwal (formerly Geoffrey Lyons), originally from Nova Scotia, has studied music from some of the greatest qawwali masters in Pakistan and India over many years.Aminah Chishti is the student of Ustad Dildar Hussain (who played with the legend Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan for more than 17 years) and is the first female tabla player to be initiated into the lineage of Qawwali.The group are ambassadors of sufi qawwali music in the west.