Badar Miandad

Badar Miandad Qawwal was an accomplished qawwal of Pakistan who made a name for himself competing with that renowned icon qawwal Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan while he was still living ! Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan was his cousin and both of them come from a family of qawwals who have been in this business for many generations. Badar Miandad's grandfather Deen Muhammad Jallandhri Qawwal, affectionately nicknamed by the Punjabi public as 'Deena Qawwal' for his pioneering efforts in developing qawwali in the Punjabi language. Deena Qawwal is a legend among the Punjabi public with dozens of super-hit qawwalies to his credit. Badar Miandad himself created more than a dozen of super-hit qawwalies before he died of a sudden heart attack at the young age of 47. He used qawwali lyrics by the famous Sufis - Mian Muhammad Baksh ( 1830-1907 A.D.), ,Bulleh Shah (1680-1758 A.D.) and many contemporary poets as well.