Biography

Habib Painter is widely considered as one of the most inspired artists ever to have graced the qawwali platform. A purist of the form,all his renditions and compositions centered around the core values and percepts of Sufi ideology. A vintage classic of Habib Painter is the qawwali 'Bahut kathin hai dagar panghat ki'. The qawwali is a thirteeth century milestone in the history of Sufi literature written by Amir Khusro, the leading desciple of Sufi saint Hazart Nizamuddin Auliya.

(Source: Doordarshan Archives,100 years of recorded music in India;In Praise of Sufiana Qawwalis )

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