Sufi singer Saieen Zahoor Ahmad passed away
Pakistani Sufi singer Saieen Zahoor Ahmed passed away while performing live in a concert in London on 22 August, 2022.
Biography Saieen Zahoor Ahmed
Saieen Zahoor Ahmed is a Punjabi Sufi musician born in 1936. In 2006, he was nominated for the BBC World Music Awards based on word of mouth, after spending most of his life singing in Sufi shrines. "Saieen" is not his first name, but an honorific title in Sindhi and can also be spelled as Sain. He was named the "best BBC voice of the year" in 2006.
Zahoor was born in the Okara district of the Sahiwal region of Punjab, Pakistan, to a rural peasant family. He began singing at the age of five, and from that early age, he dreamt of a hand beckoning him towards a shrine. When he was ten, he left home to roam the Sufi shrines of Sindh, Pu...