Aziz Mian
Aziz Mian Qawwal (Urdu: عزیز میاں قوال) (b. 27 July 1942 – d. 6 December 2000) was a Pakistani traditional qawwal famous for singing ghazals in his own style of qawwali and is considered one of the greatest qawwals in South Asia.
He holds the record for singing the longest commercially released qawwali, Hashr Ke Roz Yeh Poochhunga, which runs slightly over 115 minutes. Aziz is known by the sobriquets "Shahenshah-e-Qawwali" (Emperor of Qawwali), "Fauji Qawwal"(Military Qawwal), since his early performances were often in army barracks, and "the Nietzschean Qawwal".
"Aziz Mian would purposely work up the audience towards a state in which many in the crowd ended up losing all sense of order and control. He would often explain this as being a state of mind from which the brawling men could be hurled into the next state, a state from which they could leap to strike a direct spiritual connection with the Almighty".
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